FACTORY OF THE FUTURE
“ Philosophically , Deloitte ’ s done a tremendous amount of work around the concept of trust ”
BRIAN ZAKRAJSEK SMART MANUFACTURING LEADER , DELOITTE
companies to better serve employees and , critically , customers .
Sam is another believer in AI ’ s potential to fundamentally reshape the world and the manufacturing industry .
“ I believe it will be a bigger change than the change of implementing the internet ,” he says , reflecting on his time as an internet coordinator for a factory before the rise of the internet we know today .
“ The change from not having to having the internet … nobody could see what was happening , the future that lay ahead of us .”
The internet , Sam points out , has been transformative : full of life-changing forms of community , entertainment and information . It ’ s also full of unfathomable horrors . Anyone who ’ s spent ten minutes in a chatroom or an Instagram comments section knows that .
Does this mean we should turn away from it completely ? Of course not .
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