"Creating, selling, transporting and buying consumer goods such as casual footwear now requires just one significant human—the consumer—plus an individual here

"Creating, selling, transporting and buying consumer goods such as casual footwear now requires just one significant human—the consumer—plus an individual here and there to oversee assembly and repair robots." I've said (half-jokingly) to my friends that in the future, recommendation systems will know so much about us and be so accurate that we won't even need to make many purchasing decisions anymore. They will make the decisions that we would have made anyway.