One Million Times Faster
As Amazon hits 1 million robots in its warehouses, machines may soon outnumber people on the payroll. Fleets of drives ferry shelves while Sparrow arms sort at speed, and Amazon itself casts these systems as “sheepdogs” guiding the flock. The image recalls a recent post here about robots solving a Rubik’s Cube faster than humans. Both feats impress, yet both hinge on precision and repetition. A cube’s colored tiles or a warehouse’s endless goods are no match for algorithmic focus. The open question is whether efficiency built on such logic leaves room for the messy judgment and protection that only people—and real sheepdogs—still provide.