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The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

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Re: The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

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Great point. Also, nobody would go to a cafe where the coffee comes from a fully automated machine instead of a barista.

Unfortunately, I've been to many coffee shops where the coffee tasted much worse than what a modern fully automated machine can produce. And perhaps you have to be more nuanced - when TV's first hit the market, a wide-spread concern among film-makers was that it would kill movie theaters. The fear was that people would now only watch movies in the comfort of their homes. That didn't happen back then, but it pretty mu…

Why did you go to coffee shops even though the coffee tasted worse? That's my point.

Re: The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

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There are several robot cafes in major cities across the world

There are orders of magnitude more cafes where humans make and serve the coffee.

You said nobody. The presence of successful robotic coffee shops disproves that premise

Re: The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

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post #149

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There are orders of magnitude more cafes where humans make and serve the coffee.

You said nobody. The presence of successful robotic coffee shops disproves that premise

I mean "nobody" in the statistical sense. The number of people going to robot cafes is a rounding error compared with real cafe attendance. The fact that there are robot cafes and everybody (statistically speaking) is still going to cafes, proves the point exactly.

Re: The year of the 3D printed miniature and other lies we tell ourselves

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Great point. Also, nobody would go to a cafe where the coffee comes from a fully automated machine instead of a barista.

Or you could just buy a machine and learn to make coffee?

Yes. Yet people still go to cafes where humans make the coffee.
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