F4 dude is right. In 5 years your car will offer you to drive you home from the pub, or your kid to school. Not much later the public will demand the same technology on airliners. The pilot of the future will reside over a cubicle in flight ops and control 20 or more aircraft during one shift.
This post must take the prize for the scenario least likely to happen.
Spoke to a good friend yesterday who is an underwriter and partner for one of the major aviation insurance syndicates at Lloyds, he has followed PPRuNe for many years, mainly for entertainment, but loves the threads like this one, as I mentioned in an earlier post, "It aint going to happen"