One of the top ten things that I’ve noticed over the past decade in terms of “change” (actual change and not bogus political change)....was the kiosk operation at airports. There might still be two or three clerks around, but the check-in kiosk has been a brilliant move. With a small bag, I don’t even turn a bag into the baggage crew anymore.
I noticed a couple of international hotel chains now running a check-in kiosk instead you having to deal with the clerk.
I would suspect by 2030....we will travel and find very few people involved in the day-to-day affairs. Maybe TSA folks will still be around but I suspect that most taxi operations by 2030 will all be robotic drivers.
The TSA jobs are union jobs. They are forever.
Traveling just would not be the same without the TSA groping us and stealing from our luggage.
Count me in. I now check in and out of my hotel room with my phone app. Soon I will get a bar code emailed to me that I can use to open the room so I don’t even have to go to clerk to get key card.
I have no problem with using kiosks at airports, restaurants, etc.
Yes, I agree we will soon have self driving taxis. Uber is a major step in that direction and Google and Apple are perfecting the technology, among others.