“Look here!” Sasha says to another boy and points at his monitor. They are sitting in a dark room. Only their monitors are lighting up the room. “This is the country’s railway map,” he continues once the other boy is looking at his monitor. “And this is my toy now. This is a driverless train. I will stop it now.” He types some text on his keyboard and the train stops. “Apart from the two of us, nobody knows I am driving it. Where do you want it to go?”
“Let’s crash it into another train,” the other boy says.
“My train is full of people.”
“And?”
“OK. Let’s take another train and drive them into each other.”
He types on his keyboard. He now controls a second train with fuel tanks. Now there are two red dots on his screen. Each dot on the screen is a real train. He takes turns to control the dots. When the two dots hit each other the dots disappear from the monitor.
Originally posted 2020-06-18 20:54:00.