persuade them!), the powers that be won't have any power anymore. Then, all that it comes down to is how to share and distribute the resources we need where we need them. The list is actually endless. Do you believe a significant number of people will choose to spend a significant portion of their lives doing these sorts of jobs out of some abstract sense of social responsibility? Your Zeitgeist Movement must be base on the assumption that robots will do EVERY unpleasant job. spikosauropod -- Again, your ideas run into basic onotological differences which machines would find it very difficult to differentiate between. You could easily track a shoplifter by tracking items, but how do you track an opponent by the intent that is inside their head? You can't. Furthermore, war is politics. What you're talking about are machines that will police a world order which would inevitably benefit those who build the machines. You can't define criminality in international order, no one can, since it is one big grey area. Legitimacy is an essentially contested concept, the idea that a machine could provide some independent scientific viewpoint is absurd. If two people are in an argument and one of them pulls out a gun and shoots the other one, is there really any doubt as to who has exited the realm of civilized behavior? If you think about it, there is a very bright red line between where acceptable behavior ends and criminality begins. As humans we fool