The wisdom is supposed to come from us. You and I. Flesh and blood. Replete with logical flaws, yet the ability to seamlessly navigate a maddeningly complex world that doesn’t always follow a simple algorithm.
Which is why we experience such Schadenfreude when someone drives into a lake because their GPS told them to. That person should know better. Or as a Google spokesperson commented (in a huge understatement) when a woman followed Waze’s navigation into Lake Champlain, users should “use all environmental information available to them to make the best decisions as they drive.”
