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Originally Posted by peter12
Personally, based on what I have read, I think that most of the automation has already been done.
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I couldn't disagree more. IMO, automation has barely gotten started.
While factories for hard substances (cars, toys, etc) have been automated for a long time already, that was always the easy part for automation. Harder problems were affordably automating the process of stocking and organizing shelves, manufacturing clothing, cooking gormet food and things like that. These are just now starting to be automated, and will likely really start becoming common over the next decade. Then there are all the really hard problems, like automating transportation, building construction, and things like that; this technology that will probably start to become mainstream in 10 years, and be dominant 10 years after that.