In the last century, highly sophisticated work in factories was automated through advances in robotics, computing and work simplification. This explains why, despite its complexity, automobile assembly, like the planting of crops and the finishing of textiles, was perfectly ripe for automation.
Non-routine work, the sort of work that the readers of The New Stack do, would always be off limits because it is not algorithmic. This in turn meant that creativity, the last bastion of human endeavour, would never fall and therefore a talented but…
