It won’t be long before robots of all kinds will be commercialized far and wide and they will be replacing labor everywhere you look.
If they can do the job of a human for a 1-time cost plus maintenance and replace the human who might be moody, needs to be trained, paid a rising hourly wage, given benefits and retirement and the business has to pay taxes on them- well why would the business not go with the robot that is cheaper and will continously be learning and doing the job even better.
I believe in the human spirit and narrative, however between robotics and artificial intelligence, there will be a lot of jobs that will be lost and likely never to be seen or heard of again.
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