Part 3 of 3: Expensive Cheap

Amazon spent billions building robots for their warehouses. These robots can lift heavy things. They can move fast. They can work all day without getting tired.

But Amazon discovered something interesting.

The robots get confused by simple things.

A crumpled shipping box stops them completely. They cannot find one item hidden behind another item. Tasks that any person could do without thinking.

A billion-dollar robot defeated by wrinkled cardboard.

This tells us something important about the future. Intelligence got cheap. But physics stayed expensive. Things still have weight. Distance still takes time. Gravity works the same way it always has.

And people work the same way too.

We still want to belong. We still resist change when it threatens who we are. We still need to feel useful.

No amount of smart technology will change these basic human needs.

The future will have thinking machines everywhere.

But boxes will still get wrinkled.

People will still be people.

Maybe that's the real advantage we have.

We know how to handle the messy, unpredictable parts of life.