David Patterson: by 2030 robots will make everything open 24/7
davidpattersonx · x · 2026-10-21
Turing Award winner David Patterson offers a half-joking prediction: by 2030, everything will be open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week — because robots have nothing better to do with their time. The quip hints at how embodied AI could restructure service economics once labor is no longer bound by human schedules.
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