Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too
Tech left teens fighting over scraps, and now it wants those too
Right now, there are robots stocking convenience store shelves in Japan. We haven’t embraced that tech here in America yet, but it’s hard to imagine 7-11 or Walmart won’t at least experiment with it soon. Walmart gave up on its shelf-scanning robots in 2020, but machine vision and AI have improved a lot in the last five years, and it’s only a matter of time before it’s a machine refilling that row of family-sized Fruity Pebbles and not a kid earning some extra cash during senior year of high school.
Truth is, there just aren’t many jobs for teens out there anymore, and most of them have chosen to simply remove themselves from the job market …