"For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster

"For more than three decades, technology has reduced the number of jobs in manufacturing. Robots and other machines controlled by computer programs work faster and make fewer mistakes than humans" Worst of all, we haven't even seen the robotics revolution yet. In the past, automated assembly lines, manufacturing plants, etc. were the realm of extremely large companies with volumes in the hundreds of millions and billions of dollars. Now, with embedded development becoming more and more accessible and interfaces becoming an important part of software, that automation will become cheaper and cheaper. Pretty soon we'll be able to use off the shelf hardware with Python and OpenCV to program complicated assembly lines and manufacturing pipelines (which we can to some extent already).