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Thats a lot of job loss. It occured to me that fast food drive thrus might go to.

VLM 8y ago
Superficially a high up enough executive would see their business as "accept money, emit 'food'". However that does not work with bartenders or womens hair dressers. My guess is there's great piles of money to be made in the near future not by automating personality-free transactions, but by convincing people to cough up extra money for personality-added transactions. Note that personality-added transactions are not necessarily in opposition to tech in general, only in opposition to automation. My wife's hair cut lady accepts all sorts of crazy payment processors and social media interaction (I should ask if she takes bitcoin... yet) Likewise today, getting a fast food burger TODAY is all about turning the personality dial down to zero, if not negative, such that automation is a huge threat, but I suspect in a decade getting anything beyond a glorified vending machine will look like the personality dial is turned up to 10. The future being very unevenly distributed, look forward to the McDonalds dude who flips your burgers in ten years having a similar or larger social media presence in your life than a Food Network celebrity chef has today, or maybe it'll be like "food truck groupies" behave today, but for all prepared food. I'm not sure I want my best social media friend to be the produce manager at my local independent supermarket, but what people get usually has little to do with what they want (and both are usually orthogonal to what they need, LOL). It's going to be a really weird world when the first thing out of the DMV clerk's mouth is "Have you subscribed to my Instagram yet?"
- drivingmenuts 8y ago
  Since when do you actually have to go to the DMV to get anything done? Aside from the first license (which requires a photo) most things that I can think of can be done online? And if anyone ever asks me if I have subscribed to their Instagram, I will just say "No." Had an Instagram account. It's useless.
tomjen3 8y ago
Add truck drivers (and associated truck stops, restaurants, etc); food packaging and (most of) farming (once we have lab grown meat) retail (already happening); manufacturing and coal mining and there isn't really any jobs left that doesn't require a college degree and few enough of those outside of major cities.

VLM 8y ago

Superficially a high up enough executive would see their business as "accept money, emit 'food'". However that does not work with bartenders or womens hair dressers. My guess is there's great piles of money to be made in the near future not by automating personality-free transactions, but by convincing people to cough up extra money for personality-added transactions. Note that personality-added transactions are not necessarily in opposition to tech in general, only in opposition to automation. My wife's hair cut lady accepts all sorts of crazy payment processors and social media interaction (I should ask if she takes bitcoin... yet) Likewise today, getting a fast food burger TODAY is all about turning the personality dial down to zero, if not negative, such that automation is a huge threat, but I suspect in a decade getting anything beyond a glorified vending machine will look like the personality dial is turned up to 10. The future being very unevenly distributed, look forward to the McDonalds dude who flips your burgers in ten years having a similar or larger social media presence in your life than a Food Network celebrity chef has today, or maybe it'll be like "food truck groupies" behave today, but for all prepared food. I'm not sure I want my best social media friend to be the produce manager at my local independent supermarket, but what people get usually has little to do with what they want (and both are usually orthogonal to what they need, LOL). It's going to be a really weird world when the first thing out of the DMV clerk's mouth is "Have you subscribed to my Instagram yet?"

drivingmenuts 8y ago
Since when do you actually have to go to the DMV to get anything done? Aside from the first license (which requires a photo) most things that I can think of can be done online? And if anyone ever asks me if I have subscribed to their Instagram, I will just say "No." Had an Instagram account. It's useless.

tomjen3 8y ago

Add truck drivers (and associated truck stops, restaurants, etc); food packaging and (most of) farming (once we have lab grown meat) retail (already happening); manufacturing and coal mining and there isn't really any jobs left that doesn't require a college degree and few enough of those outside of major cities.