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Originally Posted by scottmandue

Yes, everyone can carry on proposing how technology is going to save the world but this is a perfect example. Sure we can make water but it takes a huge amount of energy.

We will always need mechanics & techs to fix the robots!

Nope, robot mechanics will fix the robots. The only thing that we need are programmers to program the robots.

I work in IT. It's a small part of IT, but important. You guys all know the computers and servers and cell phones and everything on the Internet that hold the information and talk to each other. I configure/run/support the stuff that allows all of that stuff to talk to each other. My job can be done from anywhere, but you've always needed someone skilled to do it. Well, my job is starting to become a programming gig. That way we can program things to monitor themselves and fix themselves and just let us know (at least, that's the theory). Things are changing in a big way.