Source: http://www.wired.com/epicenter/2012/05/robotic-farmers-pilots/
Thursday, 3 May 2012
All Hail the Robotic Farmers and Pilots of the Future
Fighter pilot Mary "Missy" Cummings saw it coming while landing her F/A-18 supersonic jet on a Navy aircraft carrier -- the world-changing disruption barreling toward the present. Instead of landing the multi-million-dollar machine on the small deck of the ship herself in the 1990s, a computer accomplished the tricky feat for her. "Here the computer was taking off better than I could, landing itself better than I could and doing the mission better than I ever could," Cummings said Tuesday during the Wired Disruptive by Design conference. "It was really humiliating. That was what used to make me better than everyone else."
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