In a fully automated future, skilled workers will be gold

Kalanick painted a picture of a future where almost everything is automated, even building 1,000 buildings a day.
But he pointed out that jobs like plumbers or skilled workers will be even more valuable, he jokingly compared them to being as sought-after as LeBron James.

Waymo's self-driving tech and the human factor

Even with big leaps in self-driving tech such as Waymo, which currently use human supervisors, and where the ratio could shift from roughly five cars per supervisor to potentially hundreds or thousands per supervisor, Kalanick says humans are still needed for the tricky stuff, at least until super-intelligent AI comes along.

Kalanick's new venture Atoms

Kalanick also revealed his company City Storage Systems (behind CloudKitchens) just rebranded as Atoms this week.
The new focus? Real estate meets robotics and delivery, with hopes of bringing prepared food prices closer to grocery-store levels.