ITT: Industries or institutions that are, can or should be replaced with more efficient tech solutions.
If you have an opinion on it, feel free to elaborate why you are for or against the change.
Examples:
>Taxis - Uber and similar networks
>Fiat money - crypto-currencies
>Bank loans - money-lending networks
>Flea markets - online marketplaces
>Blind dates - dating apps
inb4: Women will be replaced by sex bots
Well memed.
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>Humans - AI
>couriers -> drones
Faster delivery, lower delivery charges.
Correction.
>Humans - Ems
>Ems - AI
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Amazon's failure to deploy drones is disappointing
Thanks. Tasty as hell.
I know it sounds like a meme, but isn't it really the future of money?
Oh yeah. Also trucking and public transportation is probably going to be BTFO in the next 20 years.
Restaurants with robot food making booths.
>yfw you realize a blockchain can replace everything in your OP
Home replicators when?
Gimme that tea, earl grey, hot
Current voting technology - > open source blockchain voting
That would be cool. Especially when voting on local issues.
But isn't voting on huge issues like presidental elections kinda pointless precisely because of the new marketing and social tech?
I mean, if we reach a point at which manipulation of consent is so easy and cheap, what's the point of traditional elections? The Trump vs Hillary election was pure meme war with almost no substance at all.
DJ Stingray??
J*mes is that you?
Digital cameras. The whole industry of them is still extremely overpriced and based on proprietary technology and connections.
But the truth is the cameras don't need any kind of fancy electronics in them and they ought to be upgrade-able in the way laptops can be upgraded.
No. Since when is Sup Forums into Detroit Techno? All I saw here was hentai OSTs and a few japanoise fans.
it's hard to be more /tech/ than Gerald Donald tbqh though I don't post here a lot I lurk mostly
Awesome album!
Come home user.
Work - internet porn
Data Analysts/most Data Scientists - BI AI analytics.
At least technical part of it will die off, like code monkeying.
I know I'm not on Sup Forums but
>playing Fallout: New Vegas as a drone
Sounds like it could be either a very interesting or a very boring roleplaying experience.
>It gets cancelled because patriotic anons keep shooting it down
Awesome
Laptops are rarely upgradable though
flea markets/swap meets/etc are good irl places for finding things you might not find otherwise though
hopefully things goes less and less canikon