think bigger, because this certainly is. change on the order of years means nothing

Sorry, I don't believe in Calvinism.

1. That’s not remotely the same, and you know it.

2. The category of computerized machines (of which self checkouts are one example) has absolutely revolutionized the world. Computerization is the defining technology of the last twenty years.

What is that category and what other machines are in it?

> I don't see them revolutionising the world.

They revolutionized supermarkets.

Unless you happen to be some sort of rodent that feeds off of discarded grains, the supermarket is not the world.

And for small baskets, sure, but it was scan as you shop that really changed supermarkets and those things thankfully do not talk.

In what way?

I would really like to hear you explain how they revolutionized supermarkets.

I use them every day, and my shopping experience is served far better by going to a place that is smaller than one that has automated checkout machines. (Smaller means so much faster.)

Hell, if you go to Costco, the automated checkout line moves slower than the ones manned by experienced workers.

This is the most perfect troll comment I've ever seen. Bravo.

I think it's worth engaging with even if this guy's a troll (not saying he is) because it's not that freakish a view in the real world. What are the arguments to counter this kind of blind enthusiasm?

It's kind of making a fair point more than trolling.