It’s all about Trust. Ever wonder why the doors to the pilot cockpit on commercial airline flights are left open during passenger boarding? It turns out that the passengers have a charming and very human need to peer into the cockpit and see the pilots sitting there. The airlines know this, so they leave the doors open for the passengers during boarding so we can all scratch this persistent little itch of need and reassurance. It’s also why the pilots talk to us over the intercom during the flight. So why all this soft-touch hand-holding of passengers? The pilots are actually flying the plane for one reason only: Trust. The plane can fly perfectly well without them and in fact mostly does. If you think translators feel threatened by the encroaching wave of next-generation MT software, consider the case of poor…