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Old 02-15-2011, 12:12 PM   #14
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Originally Posted by Anthem View Post
Employers are one step closer to needing nothing but robots and computers (sometimes in robots!).
One of Amazon's strengths as an online retailer (besides their secret life as an Internet *technology* company) is their heavily automated warehouses where order filling is to a large extent carried out by robots. They should be getting even more efficient shortly as they bought out Diapers.com because they had developed robot software that was significantly better than what Amazon had available.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39633906..._businessweek/

Most companies these days are using automation to leverage humans brainpower into higher productivity so they use humans where their judgment is valuable and moving to robots where dumb (robotic) "muscle" power suffices.

Welcome to the 21st century!

No flying cars (yet) but the rest of the wonders are coming along nicely.
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