Back in the 1920s, it seemed everything was becoming coin-operated. All over the U.S., you could find coin-operated weighing machines at railroad stations; coin-operated vending machines were chock ...
Joanna Stern’s “AI Vending Machine Dispensed Pure Chaos” (Personal Journal, Dec. 22) reminded me of one of the bedtime tales my father used to tell me when I was a child. The “coffee-machine story” ...