Is anything like Android (for mobile) and ROS (for robotics) still needed for legacy and new universal testing machines (the likes you use for tensile and compression tests of materials)?
The underlying issue is that we are going to see if the coming nationalist / populist policies will break down mundialism and its pretence for the educated white-collars to live in one single, global, always connected community.
Everywhere less and less jobs vs more and more people unemployed because of automation and stagnation. Industrial and immaterial output you can't sell because priced out of the market. Wages going down. It will be cheaper to give 10 euros/month where the poor live now than 2k euros/month (or 300 euros/month as for Italy plan) after they migrate to rich countries. Every place has its own cost of basic life and a grandtotal needed not to starve. It is 300 euros/month in Italy, it may be 500 euros/month in Switzerland (instead of 2k/month), it is half the daily benefit given in the UK, it may be 10 euros/month in Congo. You allow this universally or millions will come from poorer to richer countries destroying their welfare state.
It is premature but inevitable: automation, stagnant growth, migrations and deflation are all pushing towards universal basic income. Not 2k euros/month but enough to allow surviving and decency.
PhD Materials. Own R&D and consultant. https://www.linkedin.com/in/giuseppe-cornacchia/
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