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This picture from the article is nuts: https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170323-c86vRGKVPsbek3PZXpVw?auto=format&q=60&w=2000&s=7fa68cbcc86ded1ab56b65ad74700aa9 h

This picture from the article is nuts: https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170323-c86vRGKVPsbek3PZXpVw?auto=format&q=60&w=2000&s=7fa68cbcc86ded1ab56b65ad74700aa9 https://outline-prod.imgix.net/20170323-c86vRGKVPsbek3PZXpVw... The engineers and management have already decided. You want a job, I suggest you get into the robot design business.

talmand 10y ago
Useless career path. You'll be competing against robot design robots.
- supergreg 10y ago
  Somebody has to build those robots. It can't all be robots all the way down.
  - dottedmag 10y ago
    One has to build the _first_ generation of robots.
  - gloverkcn 10y ago
    Germany has most of that business.
  - bbcbasic 10y ago
    Why not? Compilers compile themselves. Animals reproduce. Etc.
zeppelin101 10y ago
Mind. Blown. This is something I would have expected to see in a few decades, but it's already the reality, I guess. Wonder how many American auto workers are out of a job due to this.
- tonyedgecombe 10y ago
  If you have 40 minutes see how BMW make a relatively low volume car: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5_tudyAF8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pa5_tudyAF8
- notahacker 10y ago
  Here's one from 1984... https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OKTGFiUc--/c_scale,fl_progressive,q_80,w_800/18to91b6najv6jpg.jpg https://i.kinja-img.com/gawker-media/image/upload/s--OKTGFiU...
Humdeee 10y ago
This is how I imagine surgery will be like one day. Triple by-pass heart surgery will take minutes like going through a cashier at the grocery checkout. I have no idea what I'm talking about.