If we've learned anything from the global supply chain disruption, it's best to have more inventory not less. The futuristic world you describe may happen someday but I think it is decades away, maybe centuries away. Imho people tend to worry about the supposed cost of holding inventory overly so. It's no big deal if you know what you're doing. Others costs like quality mishaps dwarf inventory cost. Zero defects is a better focus point for AI and other advances.
If we've learned anything from the global supply chain disruption, it's best to have more inventory not less. The futuristic world you describe may happen someday but I think it is decades away, maybe centuries away. Imho people tend to worry about the supposed cost of holding inventory overly so. It's no big deal if you know what you're doing. Others costs like quality mishaps dwarf inventory cost. Zero defects is a better focus point for AI and other advances.