In the progressive utopia, policing will be done by surveillance cameras and killer robots, wars will be fought by drones, schooling will be remote over Zoom — as will abortions and assisted suicides — truckers will be replaced by self-driving trucks and package drones, children will be conceived in laboratories to be raised by people incapable of procreation, and even college students and writers will be replaced by artificial intelligence.
Okay, maybe we’re not quite there yet on any of those fronts. And I’m no Luddite about the blessings of modern technology. But the dystopian future of eliminating the human element from all manner of essential human experiences and judgments no longer looks quite so distant. As I was reminded when I opened my mail today and found a speeding ticket assigned me by a red-light camera. Thanks, Kathy Hochul.
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