That was fascinating. There was a grocery store with a similar set up in the 1930's. It looked automatic until you saw the people running around behind the walls.
On the other hand, I wrote a paper asking if we could have something like that again, and had to stop it because every industry is working towards that idea. It went from dish cleaning to pizza delivery. I could see a mall food court turn into an automated system.
When I mentioned it to an operations guy at a big theme park he laughed and said it didn't compensate for insane guests. That's the big problem. When you have 50,000 people, 500 of them will be assholes of some kind.
Edit: the grocery store was Keedoozle.
That was fascinating. There was a grocery store with a similar set up in the 1930's. It looked automatic until you saw the people running around behind the walls.
On the other hand, I wrote a paper asking if we could have something like that again, and had to stop it because every industry is working towards that idea. It went from dish cleaning to pizza delivery. I could see a mall food court turn into an automated system.
When I mentioned it to an operations guy at a big theme park he laughed and said it didn't compensate for insane guests. That's the big problem. When you have 50,000 people, 500 of them will be assholes of some kind.