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		sph 7 months ago \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Amazon's Vulcan Robots Now Stow Items Faster Than ... We're moving towards a future where the entire earth and asteroid belt are mined by machines to build more machines.

krapp 7 months ago [–]

No we aren't, not even a little.

sph 7 months ago | [–]

The day it happens you won’t have much time to say “damn, you were right” before you are atomised and reconstituted as an Amazon Prime cardboard package.

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