It is more than a technology. It's also a law of culture and politics and evolution. I don't believe them. People just emerge from atoms.
Agents do it for money.
They really do go away. The CEO of Boeing, according to Richard Wojcik. The world in arms is not spending money alone. It is spending the sweat of its laborers, the genius of its scientists, the houses of its children. The lay public, familiar with only a few incidents of software failure, may regard them as exceptions caused by exceptionally inept programmers.