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- Technology has improved
so much of our lives.

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You can order something from 15 miles away

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and have it delivered in 15 minutes.

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You can talk to someone across
the globe in five seconds.

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But we have to ask ourselves,
with so much that we gain,

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what is it that we're losing?

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(cash register ring)

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It's becoming increasingly more likely

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that when you visit a fast food restaurant

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or a grocery store that
instead of a person

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checking you out, it'll be a machine.

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Self-serving and check-out
kiosks are becoming common.

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And even replacing
cashiers in certain cases.

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Could this mean that this
profession as we know it

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might cease to exist?

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(plane engine)

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Will the ease of online booking,

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the necessity for a travel agent

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has all, but disappeared.

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(newspaper crumpling)

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Now that you can get all the news you want

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at just the touch of a finger,

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why would you need a newspaper?

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But what does that say about the paperboy?

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Or a book publishing house?

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Or even the printing press?

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(camera snap)

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It wasn't so long ago
that you could walk into

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any one of your neighborhood drugstores

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and find somewhere to
process 35 millimeter film.

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But with the rise of digital photography,

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it's becoming increasingly harder to find.

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(car engine)

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Self-driving cars are expected to work

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without the necessity of a driver.

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General Motors and lyft are
reportedly joining forces

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and will work on building a
network of self-driving cars.

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GM will reportedly invest
$500 million in lyft.

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With the recent advent
of self-driving cars,

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what does that say about Uber,
lyft, or even taxi drivers?

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Does that mean they'll
become obsolete as well?

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(quiet dramatic music)