This machine will serve you a free Big Mac

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Timothy Carone, a University of Notre Dame professor and author of the book “Future Automation Changes to Lives and to Businesses,” says such technology [as Big Mac vending machines] is about more than marketing. The fast-food industry is at the forefront of the trend toward automation, Carone said. “Things like this are going to be in our future, so you have to accept it,” he said. “It’s inevitable.”

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