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True, but not for a very long time.

The day someone that can make a robot to clean my bathroom and then make me a ham sandwich, I'll get worried.

In the meantime, other industries like sports, entertainment, tourism, etc. expand.

One are that will be the last to be automated is 'taking care of the elderly' - it's human-intense and that market is only expanding.



I wish you were right.

I wish it were 50 years off.

Life, however, has other plans:

https://arstechnica.com/business/2017/02/how-being-replaced-...

(Incidentally there's actually a gif of a robot cooking in there.)




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