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Kendall Square

Kendall Square Confidential

Is it the future? Or just a lot of glass buildings and robots delivering burritos? Mack and Jack investigate.

Kendall Square Confidential

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M

Jack, I went to Kendall Square yesterday.

J

Kendall Square! The innovation district! Did you feel smarter just being there?

M

I felt... confused. There's a robot. Just rollin' down the sidewalk.

J

A robot?

M

Like a little cooler on wheels! I'm standin' there with my coffee, and this thing just scoots right past me like I don't exist.

J

(Laughs) That's the future, Mack! It's delivering somebody's lunch!

M

A robot! Delivering lunch! Meanwhile, I can't even get my nephew to bring me a sandwich from the kitchen.

J

(Laughs) That's because your nephew isn't programmed for efficiency!

M

No kidding. So I walk into this coffee shop, right? And everyone's on laptops. EVERYONE. And they're all wearing those... what do you call 'em... fleece vests?

J

The tech bro uniform! Patagonia vest, laptop, oat milk latte.

M

Oat milk! When did we start milkin' oats?!

J

(Laughs) They're curing diseases over there, Mack. Let 'em have their oat milk.

M

Fair enough. I will say this - Row 34? The oyster place? Phenomenal. Best seafood in Cambridge.

J

Now THAT I can get behind. Forget the robots, gimme the oysters.

M

That's the spirit! Kendall Square: come for the biotech, stay for the seafood.

J

And watch out for the robots. This is Cambridge Connections!

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