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Old 11th Jun 2002, 17:57
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Idunno
 
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Carruthers, you silly billy. What on earth are you on about.

The day of three dimensional sat nav and fully automatic aeroplanes is not far off boys and girls, then the 'beancounters' will fly them from the ground, perhaps not literally but the writing is on the wall.
Oh dear Mr.Carruthers. You seem to live in a dreamworld.

Yes, perhaps some day in the future your wet dream will come true, but only after Bill Gates, Dell, Intel and a lot of other providers get together and produce an affordable home based desktop PC which switches on and off like a television set, needs no maintenance, never locks up, never crashes, never displays the 'blue screen of death', is invulnerable to viruses.

When they've been doing that reliably for oh...let's say, ten years, and doing it cost effectively, and every home in the land has such a 'computer' in daily use....then, and ONLY THEN will Mr. Smith or Mrs.Jones allow themselves or their little Judy and Jimmy to be transported across continents in the middle of the night by pilotless, computer controlled aircraft.

Care to wager on a date?

PS. Actually I read somewhere that computer controlled ATC was already feasible, but no company would build such a system because of the potential public liability claims if it went tits up and an accident resulted. Another example of beancounters triumphing over aspiration.

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