welcome aboard

Two major questions torment us: “Will there be snow at Christmas? and “Is there a pilot on the plane?” Well, for the snow at Christmas, we still have a little time. On the other hand, for the pilot in the plane, it would seem that there is urgency in the air. The National Union of Airline Pilots, quoted by Le Monde, is indeed sounding the alarm against the reduction in the number of pilots on board, or even their outright abolition, to replace them with artificial intelligence. And to quote the Dragonfly program, developed by Airbus, which allows the plane to take off, fly and land without a pilot.

Of course, Airbus protests, as what it is just to improve safety on board. Anyway, if you’re flying to New York and the captain says, “Welcome aboard our Airbus 350 bound for Tokyo,” there’s something wrong. Either he smoked a joint (or drank too much), or we installed the wrong artificial intelligence program. Either way, say your prayers.

The best, of course, would still be to stop flying at all. It looks like we’re not going that way. I learn indeed, still thanks to the World, that 47,000 planes will fly in 2041, against 24,000 today. That’s almost double. Wait… Didn’t we say that we would fly less, in relation to the future of the planet, pollution, all that? We said yes…

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