Driverless car is the obvious current example, for me. Sure, it's a car, it has no human driver, but what would that mean next? Does it need to have a "front" and a "back"? Does it even need seats? Why can't it be a hotel room on wheels? We're still at the early stages here.
Interesting post Dan, of course your example of horseless carriage immediately brings to mind the term “horsepower” to describe the power an engine produces.
In electronics vacuum tubes are sometimes referred to as valves and the first vacuum to invented by John Fleming was a simple diode or one-way electric check valve, it was known as the Fleming valve. Lloniannau!
Wireless telegraphy morphed into wireless. Which was used for many years and still is. E.g., wireless hotspot. Car and carriage also likely come from the same Latin root. The more things change…
Computer "files" are stored in "folders", which are clearly terms taken from paper-based filing systems.
Driverless car is the obvious current example, for me. Sure, it's a car, it has no human driver, but what would that mean next? Does it need to have a "front" and a "back"? Does it even need seats? Why can't it be a hotel room on wheels? We're still at the early stages here.
Interesting post Dan, of course your example of horseless carriage immediately brings to mind the term “horsepower” to describe the power an engine produces.
In electronics vacuum tubes are sometimes referred to as valves and the first vacuum to invented by John Fleming was a simple diode or one-way electric check valve, it was known as the Fleming valve. Lloniannau!
Wireless telegraphy morphed into wireless. Which was used for many years and still is. E.g., wireless hotspot. Car and carriage also likely come from the same Latin root. The more things change…
Would the evolving use of the word “tablet” fit this bill? what about “mouse”?