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​​🍔Rage against the burger maker The Verge has an in-depth look at the burger-making robots that are the main attraction at San Francisco restaurant, Creator. The piece offers a balanced approach to the idea that these machines will replace human jobs, but there’s no escaping the fact that ‘burger bots’ are a very real frontline face of automation. Optimists love to say that automation is nothing new, and that it only ever offers new opportunities for humans by giving us new roles. But technological progress accelerates ever onwards, and the coming wave of automation may happen so fast that we can’t find enough jobs to replace those it devours. And what happens then? When we talk about automation taking jobs, it’s often in the context if artificial intelligence – 'invisible’ software replacing existing human roles. Burger-making robots show that, if automation causes significant unemployment, there will be plenty of real machines to rage against. Read more in today's Big Revolution: prs.pctvix.co/2NHvTeG Martin Bryant, 🚀@PerspectiveIX