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“My robots are going to work during the Super Bowl,” he said. “Do you know how popular I would be to ask my employees to work during the Super Bowl?”

That is the last paragraph of this article by John Markoff in the NYT. 

What will be the implications for developing countries in the long term? Probably:

1) More access to cheaper products and services.

2) More access to some displaced skilled workers from depevoped countries.

3) Accelerated economic convergence.