more data than will fit in the device's memory
. I record my bike rides with my GPS. Not once in the last 2 years have I had to remove data off the device because it ran out of space. I think in total there might be a few megabytes worth of data, and it's only that big because they use XML to store the data, which is inherently verbose. There is less data than actual XML. I'm sure that a simple fitness bracelet could store a lifetime's worth of data in under 1 GB.
Automation can minimize labor costs but it cannot eliminate them because it is not economical to automate all jobs even when it is technologically possible to do so.
The only thing stopping that is that it's still too expensive to build machines to do certain jobs. But that won't last forever. Eventually, with the progress of technology, it will become very economical to replace workers with machines. Some jobs may require a robot that requires 20 years to pay itself off, that probably isn't worth it for a lot of businesses. Some jobs will pay off the machine in 2 or 3 years. At that point, as far as the company is concerned, it's economically irresponsible to not get the robot to do the job. As the cost of the machines come down, that machine that used to take 20 years to pay off, will only take 10, or 5, and eventually it will be cheap enough. The only jobs left will be thinking/creative jobs (unless there is some major advancement in AI), and jobs that people actually want to talk to a person for. As annoyed as people get with customer support personnel, they would be infinitely more annoyed at a machine who was reading off the same script.
"Engineering without management is art." -- Jeff Johnson