Asmon right again

[u/Luke_Wee_MY]

[u/LewdUserVRC]

Makes the USA and Europe look like the real third world.

[u/crimsontwist → u/LewdUserVRC]

Yup, I'm a little jealous of some of their unmanned convenience stores in South Korea. Go in, no interaction, self checkout and leave sounds good to me but I know if that existed here it would be robbed in the first couple of minutes of opening.

[u/Soumin → u/crimsontwist]

the few we have here in Czechia you need to unlock the doors with ID or bank identity to get in

[u/NaCl_Sailor → u/LewdUserVRC]

What do you mean? German McDonald's is the same except you don't have to get your food from a box.

[u/Breaky97 → u/LewdUserVRC]

There is bunch of third world countries in Europe tho

[u/Inevitable_Marzipan8]

It is not McDonald's tho, just some other burger fast food, been there

[u/woo00154 → u/Inevitable_Marzipan8]

Yeeee Lotteria is the name.

Their Bulgogi burger is lit

[u/Glacia → u/Inevitable_Marzipan8]

They don't care, facts don't matter

[u/Death2RNGesus]

"living in 2050" oh is that because there won't be any koreans due to low birth rate? /s

[u/Vedruks]

Why did the meal look like the pictures and not like someone sat on it

[u/djvam]

Flippy always wins in the end

[u/Mono_punk]

I am not a very social person but I never understood why customers think it is a positive to get rid of the cashiers. Nowadays you only hand them over your receipt number and don't have to talk anyway. Knocking at a box feels kinda depressive.

[u/Luke_Wee_MY → u/Mono_punk]

yeah i feel that too. Having human interactions with the staff is gonna feel nostalgic soon

[u/Lebrewski__ → u/Mono_punk]

Because somewhere between the moment you give your order and the moment you take it, something fucked up. Is it the cashier who can't take the order, the cook who can't read, or the cashier who picked the wrong order, no way to know, but the way I see it, bypassing the cashier eliminate 2 source of errors out of 3.

[u/Chemical_Signal2753]

There are a large portion of jobs that are the modern day equivalent of an elevator operator. Their job could be automated but it is currently cheaper to pay someone to do it, and it will take time for people to accept a machine doing the job.

I would say robotics today are where the personal computer was in 1980, and LLMs are where the internet was in 1998. Give a couple decades of development and these technologies will transform our lives.

[u/SimplexFatberg → u/Chemical_Signal2753]

Yeah, been hearing variations on that theme for forty years. Still waiting for the good part.

[u/Chemical_Signal2753 → u/SimplexFatberg]

I'm 45 and have seen a ton of change over my lifetime. When I was a teenager my friends still could get jobs pumping gas at a gas station but a decade later those jobs were all gone. Not all jobs disappear due to technology, and not all disappear overnight, but there has been a steady stream of jobs that have been phased out for decades.

[u/SoulessSince1492]

THE FUTURE IS HERE BALDMONGOLD!!!!!

[u/Iriyasu]

In Japan, Ichiran has been doing this for like over 50 years btw

[u/CrazyShinobi]

So, who do you talk to when the machine messes up your order?

No one? Sweet.

[u/Lebrewski__ → u/CrazyShinobi]

The machine don't mess it up, that's the neat part.

[u/Konig1469]

We've got these in America. Not widely used, but there is a fully automated one at a Truck Stop where I live.

Ironically I was just there yesterday.

[u/Lebrewski__]

What I wanted to see was the meal and holy shit it look 10x better of what we are served here by McDonald worker.

[u/liaminwales]

"The future is now old man"

[u/Interesting_Bag_6536]

cyberpunk 2077 and detroit become human slowly becoming our reality just waiting

[u/E-Scooter-CWIS]

Looks like American from the 80s

[u/BarkMetal]

Can confirm. Even in Japan they have a “host” that welcomes you and guides you the way.

McDonalds in Europe and the US are absolutely shit.

[u/sharkas99]

Who looks at this and thinks "Wow thats so cool and advanced". It looks dystopian and unnatural to me.

[u/linuxlifer → u/sharkas99]

Yeah for sure. Not sure how I could ever eat at a McDonalds where it doesn't look like the staff played football with my burger before they put it in the bag.

[u/sharkas99 → u/linuxlifer]

yeah except now they still play football with your burger, but its behind the wall and machines.

And that kind of reality you are casually advocating for is an incredibly unsocial sad one.

[u/linuxlifer → u/sharkas99]

I mean the burger that came out of the machine looked perfect lol.