Why Not Everything is Automated in Manufacturing (Yet)

Interesting post from a tech accelerationist angle which ponders the challenges to full factory automation. It’s about manufacturing but the lessons might seem to apply in any domain: automation works when the output is uniform, low variance, needed at massive scale, and where labour costs are high enough to justify the switch - hence why it may be (counter intuitively) easier to automate car production, than the production of sneakers.