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I think it's because many engineers underestimate how much the force of habit shape people behavior.

habits that shape the consumer, employers, companies making decisions for automation.

maybe drug store managers would feel like they have no one to manage? it would be too disruptive for labor.

From a consumer perspective even available tech like voice recognition doesn't seem to add or change much for me personally like I know Siri is on my iphone right now, but how often do I feel comfortable speaking to her? almost never.Why would I speak if I could type?

Virtual game characters like assistants would look too odd and uncomfortable, except maybe in japan, it's uncomfortable to make eye contact with human strangers, let alone 'robot eyes stranger'!.

maybe if younger kids were exposed to virtual assistants they would be comfortable in adapting to them, just like gen z adapted to preferring typing over answering the phone.

maybe that could be the future of post-gen z generation.




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