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April 29, 2016
The Shuttlecock Paradox.
The enigma of the robot-batted shuttlecock | Robots are capable of doing amazing things — playing badminton with the premier, for instance — but the amazingness is often thin and brittle. Robots may soon be able to beat the best badminton players in the world, but that’s not going to put professional badminton players out of work. Because it’s still a lot more fun to watch people play badminton than to watch robots play badminton. Remember how automatic teller machines were going to put bank tellers out of work? And yet, even though ATMs are everywhere, there are more bank tellers at work today than when ATMs were invented.
Posted by gerardvanderleun at April 29, 2016 4:43 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.
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Not around these parts.
I went into a bank recently, first time in years, and after waiting for a few minutes the sole female employee came out of a back room and addressed me.
I asked her if she could produce a buggy whip and a bakers dozen of left handed muffler bearings for me.
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at April 29, 2016 5:40 PM