[ialyos]

Agreed.

Robots are very hard, and Boston Dynamics has been around for almost 40 years and still isn't anywhere close to making a lot of money.

Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

Fwiw I interviewed with BD a few years ago, and am focusing on robotics, so I'd like the opposite to be true

[WhompingWindows]

Computation existed for more than 40 years before apps started making a ton of money on it. If BD develops robotic platform-"workers" that can be trained in 5 seconds to do any manual labor, that's the new "app" that one would be making money off of in the future.

[tibiahurried]

> Apps have added a lot more value to my life than BD ever has.

This thinking will never take humans on Mars! Someone must work on hard, expensive problems.

Human race does won't move forward with a chat but with the hard work of scientist, engineers etc ...

[jskajakzkjx]

A lot of the hard work of scientists and engineers is enabled by chats, though.

[jessaustin]

"On the joyous and satisfying occasion of this, our first successful journey to Mars, we think back not only on all those who died along the way, but also on the Slack clone that allowed us avert disaster on this mission..."

[teknopaul]

I do wonder why we want humans on Mars. Given the huge amount of fossil fuels that must be burned on this planet to get us there. We may find Mars is dry and arid when we get there, and so is Earth.