Why do people say we need more immigrants? Robots are the future.

[Baobab]

57. conomics of scale means that most companies will not have any facilities they will contract out for

manufacturing, production and fulfillment. All office work will be handled by companies that just do office work with screen pop. You know what screen pop is? When you automate something the goal is to automate 90% and pass the exceptions to humans, at least at the start (gradually you likely ca get rid of the remaining exceptions by fine tuning the application) the economics of scale means that you want a company to handle your back office chores and typically you might have a company that specializes in that. Customer service. their workers likely work at home, they may be on the other side of the world, manning their computers. When a customer calls, they get a screen that is the result of the database query which encapsulates the entire application and all the customers personal details so you can get high ratings for your service, and not be surly or rude.

They see the details maybe half a second before they even answer the call. They may be in some other English speaking country and perfect English speakers. Even things as simple as ordering a hamburger from a drive in window are done like this. That way employers can focus on their core competencies which likely are in the product's design.