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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 2630007" data-attributes="member: 177">Remember - the machines are now smarter than humans - they can diagnose and repair and maintain better than a human can.  Most of our foods are already harvested by machine, and with advancing technology, the machines should end up with dexterity similar to a human's - so chicken-plucking is in!I still imagine the limiting factos being power - machines intended to be autonomous for any length of time need to be car-sized, and they can operate independantly for as long as a car can.  So, humans are required for jobs that require long-term autonomy in a small package.  Anything that can be done at or near an installation can be done by machine.  The #1 question that comes up is - what is the machine "psychology"?  Because these things are smarter than men, how they interact with men depends upon how they think.  Somethign with Asimov's Laws integral totheir design are different to things allowed to program their own minds.</blockquote>