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fromFast Company
2 weeks ago

U.S. air traffic control system that relies on floppy disks will cost 'lots of billions' to overhaul

"We use radar from the 1970s," said Duffy, who compared the proposal with upgrading from a flip phone to a smartphone. "This technology is 50 years old that our controllers use to scan the skies and keep airplanes separated from one another."
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