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Flat White

The fall of the machines

6 February 2019

7:14 PM

6 February 2019

7:14 PM

About 30 years ago, General Motors experimented with fully automating a car factory. An immense design effort was implemented to replace every manual task with a machine so that robots did everything. Within a few years, the car company reversed their decision and started doing the exact opposite—replacing robots with people.

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