Automation engineer son having a Saturday afternoon beer in the back yard of his parents home. His mother is on her knees digging in the well manicured flower and vegetable garden.
Son: “Mom, you know there are robots that can do that for you.”
Mom: “Mm, hmm.”
Son: “I mean we could have one delivered that would tend your garden, do your shopping, do your washing.”
Mom: “Why?”
Son: “To save you time. So you could do the things you want to do.”
Mom: “Like what?”
Son: “Oh, I don’t know…”
Mom: “You mean like tend the laundry, shopping in town and cultivating my garden?”
Son: “Uh…”
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Sing it with me: “Don’t it always seem to go, that you don’t know what you’ve got ’till it’s gone. They paved paradise and put up a robot factory…”
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