A Better Tomorrow Dept.

Tom Vanderbilt Explains Why We Could Predict Self-Driving Cars, But Not Women in the Workplace

... when I took a subway to a caf to write this article and electronically transmit it to a distant editor, I was doing something I could have done in New York City in the 1920s, using that same subway, the Roosevelt Brothers coffee shop, and the telegram, albeit less efficiently. (Whether all that efficiency has helped me personally, or just made me work more for declining wages, is an open questi...