Yes. Very prescient in many ways. He even anticiates road pricing and congestion zones.
The main divergence from current technology is that he assumes central computer control rather than the approaching reality of artificial inteligence combined with massive real time interactivity via the Internet.
It is the synergies that catch everyone out. In advance it is very difficult to figure out that Moores Law plus the Internet plus cell phone technology plus GPS will add up to a situation where everyone carries a massively powerful communication, information retrieval and control device in their pockets - and that this infrastructure is likely to enable automation of transport.
Yes. Very prescient in many ways. He even anticiates road pricing and congestion zones.
The main divergence from current technology is that he assumes central computer control rather than the approaching reality of artificial inteligence combined with massive real time interactivity via the Internet.
It is the synergies that catch everyone out. In advance it is very difficult to figure out that Moores Law plus the Internet plus cell phone technology plus GPS will add up to a situation where everyone carries a massively powerful communication, information retrieval and control device in their pockets - and that this infrastructure is likely to enable automation of transport.
