Your car should drive itself. It's amazing to me that we let humans drive cars... It's a bug that cars were invented before computers.

Largely this is a class thing - writers tend to be cosseted little middle-class kiddies who think that the world owes them a royalty cheque. But just doing it - being in your room for years on end locked in your head alone with invented ghosts - it weakens and softens the body. And I know I can't just live in my head.

Californians invented the concept of life-style. This alone warrants their doom.