You're right it's just like any other mechanization/automation revolution. Except it's not.
It's happening about 10x faster than any other I've seen or read about.
Conceive how long it took just to get barcode scanners rolled out in grocery stores. Or direct payment terminals. Or how many decades it's been getting robotics into the manufacturing of cars at scale. I worked through the .com boom and I can tell you that "webification" took 10 years or more for most businesses (and many of them now just gave up and just have a Facebook page instead etc)
This is a little insane what's happening now. It really does change everything. People who don't work in software I don't think have any idea what's coming.
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You're right it's just like any other mechanization/automation revolution. Except it's not.
It's happening about 10x faster than any other I've seen or read about.
Conceive how long it took just to get barcode scanners rolled out in grocery stores. Or direct payment terminals. Or how many decades it's been getting robotics into the manufacturing of cars at scale. I worked through the .com boom and I can tell you that "webification" took 10 years or more for most businesses (and many of them now just gave up and just have a Facebook page instead etc)
This is a little insane what's happening now. It really does change everything. People who don't work in software I don't think have any idea what's coming.