This is essentially the "last mile" problem in automation. What's the value of a fridge that warns you when you're running low on something? Almost nothing. Wh

This is essentially the "last mile" problem in automation. What's the value of a fridge that warns you when you're running low on something? Almost nothing. What's the value of a fridge that prints out a shopping list based on what it currently has? Some. What's the value of a fridge that automatically orders those things, has them delivered to your door and/or restocked inside it? Significant. Why? Because we've already automated the basic 25-75% of most tasks (somewhere in the 1920s-1980s). The modern value proposition is binary: having to think about "it" any amount vs not having to think about "it" at all. Saving time at "it" is more or less worthless at this point, because we've already automated most of the raw time away. Or in other words: time spent in mental context switching dominates, and can only be avoided via 100% automation.