So often we see that Artifical Intelligence (AI) is the answer. But like all "new" innovation it's "old tech" with something tagged on, in this case, AI. The IKettle, is just a kettle. You boil water in the same way, you just control the boiling of the water from the app. Transformation would be using a "new" invention to boil water.

Automation is coming, pant the breathless pundits warning of A.I.-induced job loss. Ratcheting up the fear meter, presidential candidate Andrew Yang recently sounded the alarm for unprecedented employment gutting -- not just among blue-collar professions, but white-collar jobs, too. Meanwhile, renowned studies paint a gloomy picture, one in which rapid A. advances kneecap our middle-class dreams, sapping the hopes of young people who are left to wonder: Will there be a job for me when I graduate? And yet, the on-the-ground reality doesn't fit these sour prognostications. If anything, it offers good news for workers.