MICHAEL L. DERTOUZOS

Polling can undermine the ability of officials to lay out, debate, analyze, and implement their plans. By turning to instant [electronic] polls we would eliminate the captain and the officers and leave every shipboard decision to the passengers.

If we can’t stop fighting with one another, maybe we can delegate the job to robot soldiers fighting robot enemies, thereby destroying hardware instead of killing people!

If we can’t stop fighting with one another, maybe we can delegate the job to robot soldiers fighting robot enemies, thereby destroying hardware instead of killing people!

Polling can undermine the ability of officials to lay out, debate, analyze, and implement their plans. By turning to instant [electronic] polls we would eliminate the captain and the officers and leave every shipboard decision to the passengers.