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BTW what technical advances did you expect to have by now? For me, simple things:

- Robotic cooking machine or some sort of ubiquitous and super cheap automated food system

- Self-cleaning house

- All gene-related diseases cured

Self-cleaning house seemed like it would be here already. If you had described the technologies available in 2019 to myself in 2002 (when the roomba came out) - I would have expected there to also be a boston-dynamics-esque floor, window and countertop cleaning bot that was reasonably affordable. I didn't expect that walking around a house and picking things up would be this hard to automate.

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