As London’s black cabs move inexorably towards extinction, we ponder whether the progress of civilisation is merely illusory. Image: JamesGardinerCollection via Flickr Things mentioned in this podcast -‘Meditations on Moloch’ from Slate Star Codex: https://slatestarcodex.com/2014/07/30/meditations-on-moloch/ -The Tragedy of the Commons: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons -Ronald Coast, ‘The Problem of Social Cost’: https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/466560 For more Cognitive Engineering episodes find us on iTunes, Google Play or wherever you get your podcasts, or add this RSS feed to your preferred player: feeds.soundcloud.com/users/soundcloud:users:219479129/sounds.rss