Thanks! That was a great laugh! I was having a bad day.
Robots trying to replace humans will be a hoot. Think a larger more annoying telephone answering service.
Let me tell you how this will go.
In 1980 when computers were first making inroads into manufacturing and the production control area, we had the wonks from IBM there selling us their System something or other, and the salesmen said in rhapsodic, soaring, glowing terms "Once you install a computer in your plant you will have a paperless office. Here we are 33 years later and as I gaze around my office I am awash in 11 x 17" reports, printouts, e-mail that comes through the system like uncontrollable projectile diarrhea. We're awash in paper and all of it data with no information.
Further I remember back in 1964 I think, going to the Worlds Fair in New York and riding in the late model car on the track and going through the GE and GM "Futurewold" exhibits and hearing how in the 21st century the biggest industry of all would be the leisure industry because we'd all be working 4 hours a day, 2.5 days a week and wouldn't know what to do with ourselves. I now work 12 hours a day with a four hour ride (two hours one way) slapped on top of that, and that's for 5.8 days a week.
If I ever meet those guys again I will strangle them with my bare hands.
The way to work with these creative visionaries I have found is the Management Style of Joe Stalin. Beat them silly with a large stick, drag them out of the Gulag and force them to build what you want. If they do not succeed you beat them again and throw them back into the Gulag. If they do produce what you want, you beat them again (only with a smaller, softer stick) and throw them back into the Gulag.
experiments with 3Dprinting tiles.
