The Factory of the Future Has No Humans and One Very Busy Dog

The AI manufacturing sector is growing at a terrifying 41.7% per year. By 2032, factories will be entirely populated by AI-driven robots that work 24/7 without complaining about the lack of free snacks in the breakroom. Experts say this will lead to a "manufacturing explosion," which sounds like a good thing until you realize we’re just making more stuff that nobody can afford because nobody has a job anymore. The goal is a "dark factory"—a place so automated you don’t even need to turn the lights on. It’s a beautiful vision of efficiency: robots mining minerals to build robots that assemble robots that ship robots to your door. The only human involved will be the one person hired to keep the "one dog" that is supposedly there to bite the human if they try to touch the machines. We are perfecting the art of producing things with zero human effort, which is great for the "Market Growth" charts but a bit awkward for the people who used to enjoy eating food. By 2032, the global economy will just be a series of automated warehouses exchanging boxes of high-tech junk while the rest of us try to remember how to garden.