Voyager’s mix of tenacity and discovery should worry its science icon competitors

Opinion  The true measure of technology is not how well it matches human intelligence, but how well it survives human stupidity. Humanity’s most iconic robots, the Voyager space probes, seem to be up to that job. Nearly 20 billion kilometers from home and nearly 50 years in deep space, Voyager 2 has just been told to point its antenna away from Earth and await further orders.…