The human world is made up of two forces; the immutable laws of nature, and devised stories. The first are unchanging, the second is a set of currently established beliefs that we choose to collectively agree on to allow societies to function, law and order to exist and commercial arrangements to be possible.

The world is waking up right now. Historically we’ve acted with the viewpoint that only one race was ‘intelligent’, the human race. Today we are simultaneously in the age of understanding other natural intelligence and creating a new and different race, artificial intelligence (AI).

A thought experiment: What if we fitted-out every single car on the planet right now with autonomous driving capabilities, LIDAR and cameras and so on, right now? All one billion of them, and then, tomorrow, just let the machines drive.

Somebody put it to me recently about autonomous vehicles, that everything that could happen around the car is predictable.