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In reply to the discussion: This is why we are not about to be replaced by robots [View all]Kelvin Mace
(17,469 posts)I have been working in the computer field for three decades and the last eight in a manufacturing environment with robots and automated systems.
I have have a solar array on my roof, drive an electric car, and wired my house with a computer network, and automated it, for fun. And even the most simple systems I am working with are not reliable enough that I would bet my life on them. Every sensor I add, every switch, every light, transmitter, etc, adds a layer of complexity, and therefore a point of failure.
I am hardly naive about tech, nor a Luddite. I love tech, but understand its limitations.
I am constantly amazed at how impressive technology is, and how stupid it is. More impressive is the blind faith many people put in technology, even to the point of disparaging the millions of years of human evolution that resulted in the brain that creates the technology.