Automation makes us more Human, not Less

“I am a warrior, so that my son may be a merchant, so that his son may be a poet.”

Shelby Elzinga
Nov 6 · 6 min read

― John Quincy Adams

A fun trivia fact about me is that I have a certification in robotic programming. Another not-so-trivial fact is that I probably won’t get to use it for several years. My first job, after obtaining the certification and being deemed ready to go into the new age of Ohio manufacturing, was as a mechanic for machines that packaged lotion. No Wall-E’s or Eve’s in sight. Interestingly…

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