Oxide CTO @bcantrill says the people promising to "automate the economy" should spend a day in a factory, because much of the physical world isn’t even in the software loop: "People would benefit from going, working in a factory, going to a mine. Go into the actual industrial economy that people are talking about. It doesn't work the way you think it does." "It reminds me very much of the hysteria before Y2K. Ed Yourdon was saying that in New York City, you will not have water on January 1st,…