FedEx founder, chairman and CEO Fred S is pretty confident that robotics, automation and perhaps drones will play an increasingly large role in the FedEx of the future.
It’s a future that, for example, he thinks will see more factories with a decreasing number of human workers in them as well as the transport of packages and other goods in automated cars and trucks on the road
He mentioned the possibility of more automated package-delivery trucks on the road within 10 years, something he described as “a good thing” because of the assumption they’ll drive slower and make fewer mistakes as a result of human error.
"The policies and tax system the U.S. has pursued for a long time have created a situation where we’re producing just enough jobs to (compensate) for our population growth,” he said. “Under-investment has been a major driver of our slower job growth in the last few decades.”
When publications interview Smith, for example, he has been known to ask that they not put his image on the cover but rather a shot of FedEx employees.
These are some excerpts from the interview. Now am I the only one who sees the bs and contradictory statements from this man?