We were promised The Jetsons, but we’re living like the Flintstones — powering the car with our own feet while paying a convenience fee

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Try asking a store manager for a “self-service discount” after you’ve spent twenty minutes scanning your own groceries and wrestling with a finicky bagging scale.

You’ll get a look that suggests you’ve just asked for the keys to the vault.

Yet, is this really such a strange request after servicing, checking out, and bagging yourself?

The store no longer employs the cashier, so where are my savings?

How about your local fast-food burger joint?

I recently walked into a local burger joint and was immediately confronted by a towering, glowing monolith — a self-ordering kiosk that seemed less interested in feeding me and more interested in a deposition.

What followed was a digital interrogation.…