This is a copy of an answer I left on Larry Page’s Google Plus profile after another announcement about the progress of the self driving car: How come you have a patent for the self driving taxi company in the USA? I always thought of you as a creative role model who wanted to change …
Tag: TED talk
"I have no idea how to do it!" – Tim Harford's TED talk: Trial & Error and the God Complex
Finally someone stood up and said what I was feeling all my live! Tim Harford is an expert on complex systems and realized that most of them evolve by trial and error and not by some authority saying we have to do it in this and that way. He points out that this seems to …