As we've said a few times before: the future always arrives first in California, for better or for worse.

Traffic jams on the freeways at 3 p.m. in a city built around the automobile? Not good. Artificial intelligence? We'll put that down as a "maybe" at this point.

On the positive side of the ledger, the Golden State was the first place in the U.S. to enact meaningful environmental protection regulations, long before anyone imagined "atmospheric rivers" of rain or spreading wildfires due to climate change.

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