I wanted to order my breakfast from a waiter not an iPad

Last month, in New York, I saw the future, and I didn’t like it. Let me first set the scene. Booked on an eye-scorchingly early flight, I arrived at Newark airport before dawn, feeling fiercely alone, as I often do when I travel for work: a bagatelle ball, pinging around, unseen by those I love and who love me back. The airport was quiet and I passed through security quickly.

Human interaction is great, if you need other humans to validate your existence. I do not. I am on the spectrum, and I find social interaction very difficult. Things like this, and self service checkouts etc have been a godsend for me.

Get ready to get a breakfast prepared by a 3D printing machine

Respect the ethos of this paper. Please get some competent journalists

Beats waiting to the be served.

Another job gone then... And no one gives a shit

Being a server is a shitty job. But if you’re going to do it do it right so that hopefully the tips reflect the service. This will impact the tips to be sure. It’s ok because robots will serve you soon enough. Basic living income first

The guardian. Helping out with the working class struggles and problems one at a time! Bravo guardian! The world is a better place because of articles like this.

What we all gonna do when all the jobs are done by machine?

See why there are fewer jobs? The AIs and Computers are taking them away because they don't have to pay AIs nor computers to do the work. Yet the AIs and computers get it wrong 97% of the time. If a human got it wrong they'd be fired. Whose going to fire the AIs?

I'm sick to death of ordering my food and drink via in store apps. I don't want to scan groceries myself, I want human interaction and the feel good factor that my money is going into the pocket of the staff serving me.... Not some fatcat shareholder.

Do people who want this also want to pay an actual living wage too?

Side of cries with that Whine? Get used to it, only going to escalate in the years to come. How about embracing the benefits of new things instead of whining about the good old days? You sound like the drunk at the end of the bar.

I loved all the screen-based restaurants in Tokyo because I didn't have to talk. Helped me both because of the language barrier and my social anxiety.

Great article. I try to avoid business that swap humans for robots. I would not want myself to be swapped by a robot.

“I want a gas station attendant to pump my gas”, “I want an operator to connect my long distance calls”, “I want a travel agent to book my flights”

Now what’s the standard tip for an iPad these days? -a %10 charge

What's the issue? Does it taste different?

If it makes boomers feel any better, your old waiter secretly hated you. Any 'social pleasure' you feel in a service environment is a lie.

I used these in Newark and loved them. Though it did lead to a bigger bar bill than expected!

I wanted a health checkup from a woman of the night not a doctor.

Go elsewhere if it's that much of a bother.

there is only one goal for most businesses these days: money. the complexity of human interaction and socialization is lost. just ride public transportation during rush hour in any city, most riders looking at their smart phones. value of human interaction has narrowed...

and according to a recent story the screens are nastier than public toilet seats. and an ipad will never laugh at my jokes.

Funny!

“So instead, I opted for some Twitter Whine.

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