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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by noir_lord on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:15PM (#10746964)
Once our entire agricultural system (here in the UK) was dependent on manual farm labourers, now we grow 60% of the calories we consume with 1.6% of the workforce.

> It's a nice dream, but the idea of AI and robots doing dishes, picking strawberries, washing cars, cooking meals will never happen.

If something can be automated at a lower cost than paying wages it eventually will be, automation is coming (arguably has been here since the industrial revolution) and it's not stopped yet.

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Re:The first person to hack the iPhone is building a self-dr... by samstave on Wednesday December 16, 2015 @03:29PM (#10747070)
http://www.foodchainsfilm.com/

Watch this - and tell me whats cheaper, robots or mexican slaves.

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