David Simon, creator of ‘The Wire’, being interviewed by Ari Shapiro (NPR)
SHAPIRO: Ok, so you’ve spent your career television without AI, and I could imagine today you thinking, boy, I wish I had that tool to solve those thorny problems…
SIMON: What?
SHAPIRO: … Or saying…
SIMON: You imagine that?
SHAPIRO: … Boy, if that had existed, it would have screwed me over.
SIMON: I don’t think AI can challenge what writers do at a fundamentally creative level.
SHAPIRO: But if you’re trying to transition from scene five to scene six, and you’re stuck with that transition, you could imagine plugging that portion of the script into an AI and say, give me 10 ideas for how to transition this.
SIMON: I’d rather put a gun in my mouth.
Depends on the situation. Not every place to live is walkable, or should be.
Past a certain level of population density- ABSOLUTELY. EVERYTHING should be designed with walkability in mind.
Below that though, cars can often make more sense. If you live in a suburb, there’s too much distance to walk usually, and too few people on any given route to justify regular mass transit.
Personally I’m a real big fan of ‘third mode’ transportation- bikes, scooters, powered skateboards, hoverboards, segways, etc. Things that go faster than walking, slower than cars, and (crucially) take up almost no pavement space. Get enough people on those and things can get better fast.