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Old 03-04-2023, 01:54 PM   #210 (permalink)
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Jetson cities with flying cars!

He's right. This could be as big as JFK's Moon shot.

But where he fails is thinking the flying cars would be under a central control point of failure. The way to make it work is to put flocking behaviors into the individual control systems. Traffic patterns emerge spontaeously, individual choices being interaccomodative.
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https://www.eolss.net › Sample-Chapters › C02 › E6-46-01-11.pdf
The Geometry of Thinking - EOLSS
interaccomodative"). Generalized principles describe the physical realm but exist apart from it. Universe consists of both the physical (special-case) and the metaphysical (generalized principles). Fuller states that: "Metaphysical generalizations are timeless, i.e., eternal.
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