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I think the premise of the article is that goods will be extremely cheap to produce. It's not as simple as that. We need to make them extremely cheap to produc
by timedoctor 14y ago
I think the premise of the article is that goods will be extremely cheap to produce.
It's not as simple as that. We need to make them extremely cheap to produce, for people to find them, select them, and distribute them.
I think the distribution is one of the hardest challenges ... how do you automate distribution and have a robot take the place of a UPS worker. I thought about it the other day. We already have self driving cars, so why not self driving UPS vehicles?
I think it is possible (but not in the next 10 years) to have a logistics company that delivers items to the consumer's door using robots. Self driving delivery van, robot gets out of the van, goes up to the door and rings the doorbell, asks for the person. Signature not necessary (they just take a photograph of the person accepting the item).