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Maybe this tells us that the staff of a McDonald's restaurant could conceivably be replaced by software, whereas Valve will always require human beings to do its work?


replaced by software

See also Marshall Brain 'Manna'.

Conceivably, yes.

But I don't see it, or not real soon. Automation even in a controlled environment is tricky, and random customers are _random_. You have people there to handle exceptions, which are many.




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