Tag: Furniture
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#198: Robotic Caretakers, Flatpack Furniture, and the Finnish Famine
This week Ian and Michael discuss the prospect of robotic carers, from cooking and cleaning to driving, shopping and keeping people company. From there the conversation wanders through robot soldiers, flatpack furniture, the automation of delivery jobs, and the possibility that people may eventually get so fed up with AI that they simply switch it off. They eventually arrive at the great Finnish famine of the 1860s, and wonder why such a devastating episode of Finnish history is so little commemorated. (This description was written with the help of AI)