Welcome to another weekend bonus episode of the Tech Mem Right Home. I'm your host Brian McCullough.

So that Wired Longread that I suggested yesterday about Amazon's warehouse robots really stuck with me for personal reasons, as you'll hear in a second.

I decided to talk to the author of the piece, Matt Simon, not only because I wanted more flavor on what

it was like to work with these things, but also because he raises some interesting ideas about

human slash robot symbiosis. In short, the robot apocalypse might still be coming but not

today and for the foreseeable future that might be the growth industry for humans.

Robot babysitters. That might be the growth industry for humans.

Robot babysitters.

Please enjoy.

The reason that I wanted to talk about this story

specifically because, you you know people have gone

inside Amazon warehouses and fulfillment centers before but it's a little

personal because the only real quote-unquote real job I've ever had was for six months I worked at FedEx

basically at a place like you're describing where you know boxes are coming down a belt and we've got to sling them into the

various containers to that I can go to the airports. It's the whole reason why I

know really obscure airport codes like MCO is for Orlando and things like that.

Good skill to have.

Yeah, well, mostly useless skill unless you're a travel agent or something.

But so I was fascinated by this one, but let's clarify at first. In your article, you didn't visit a fulfillment center. This was what, what do they call it? A sorting facility?

It's a sorting facility. So it's kind of the next step up from a

fulfillment center. So a fulfillment center you have humans that are packing the

boxes, you know putting items into a box sending it to you.

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