When Machines Start Talking to Each Other: The Bizarre Choreography of Autonomous Everything

By Futurist Thomas Frey

The Dance Nobody’s Choreographing Yet

We debate whether driverless cars are safe and whether delivery drones will clutter our skies, but we’re missing the more interesting question: what happens when autonomous vehicles, ground robots, and flying drones start coordinating with each other in ways humans never would?

By 2035, our transportation infrastructure won’t just be automated—it will be collaborating in real-time through machine-to-machine negotiations so complex that human traffic management becomes obsolete. The interactions emerging from this coordination will look less like traditional transportation and more like a carefully choreographed dance between machines that have learned to work together in ways we’re only beginning to imagine.

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