Last week I posted about photographing subjects that will become obsolete and I mentioned robotic waitstaff. A couple of years back I was having dinner at a local pizza chain and was confronted with the ability of ordering, paying, and tipping automatically.  I resist these, because they are taking somebody’s job away from them and also because part of the “dining experience” is interacting with the waiters.  I had a lovely anniversary dinner last night, and part of the appeal and loveliness was the attentive and sweet waitress.  But as the Borg are (were?) fond of saying: :Prepare to be assimilated. Resistance is futile.”

I have been gleaning the web and as it turns out, friends, that as regards robot waiters the future is, well, now! Restaurants featuring such automatron are now in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Where is Seven of Nine when you need her? Photographically, I am thinking that the choice is not whether to photograph the transition, but whether to photograph the transition from or the transition to.