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True automation will be a disrupter but a necessity from a business standpoint. There will some occupations that robots or automation can’t or will have difficulty taking the place of IMO like utility lineman but the manufacturing plant will go the way of the one in the video in China medium to small in size with few human manpower needs due to robots.

And speaking of robotic needs and the future:

19 million tons of lithium may be buried under Arkansas

https://thepostmillennial.com/19-million-tons-of-lithium-may-be-buried-under-arkansas

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According to researchers, Arkansas could hold massive deposits of lithium, an essential ingredient in the rechargeable batteries found in cell phones and electric vehicles. The state might be sitting on as much as 19 million tons of the mineral, Science Advances reported.

The scientists say they had “calculated that there are 5.1 to 19 million tons of lithium in Smackover Formation brines in southern Arkansas,” making up “35 to 136 percent of the current US lithium resource estimate.” In a Monday release from the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS), the group explained the origins of that deposit: “the Smackover Formation is a relic of an ancient sea that left an extensive, porous, and permeable limestone geologic unit that extends under parts of Arkansas, Louisiana, Texas, Alabama, Mississippi, and Florida.”