Comments by "Tony Wilson" (@tonywilson4713) on "China’s Tariff Wars: The EU Opens a New Front || Peter Zeihan" video.

  1. Engineer here and I can tell you that there's a METHODOLOGY behind this when it comes to human interaction with machines. I work in control systems and that includes the control screens you see in news stories. You might the term SCADA (Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition) and part of my work is programming SCADA systems. What your talking about is something that has become a huge issue in engineering and it has to do with human machine interaction and necessary information versus less necessary information. We have to be incredibly mindful of information overload to operators. About 20 years ago they worked out that the process industries in America were losing more than US$20Billion a year because control room operators were being overloaded at critical times. There's been plenty of aircraft accidents happen for similar reasons of information overload during emergencies and instead of handling the situation pilots got overloaded and crashed. On cars there was a push in the 1990s to have digital dashboards. The problem is drivers don't need detailed displays. They don't need to see the exact speed or water temperature. Just seeing that your below or above the speed limit is enough or that the water is in the green zone is enough rather than overheating is enough. So analog gauges are actually a lot better for drivers as they give relevant information faster rather than detailed information that then has to be processed. The same applies to many other things, even household appliances.
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