Then it really does become reasonable to see ourselves in a competition, perhaps even a desperate competition, with our machines. This is the inevitable conclusion of the single-minded drive to automate everything. Joy's alarm is justified. To focus instead merely on stopping automation is already to have accepted that the machine, rather than our own journey of self-transformation, is the decisive shaper of our future. Yes, we urgently need to find the right place for our machines, but we can do so only by finding the right place for ourselves.
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All the readers of your article are adults and most are probably willing to at least take the warnings seriously. Nevertheless, the impulse to automate everything automatable, under the impression that to do so is beneficial, is a widespread phenomenon. The pervasiveness of automation is relatively new, so we grew up in a milieu quite different from the one our children are experiencing. We sit at home working and playing with computers, and our kids, those imitators par excellence, naturally want to do the same. And they do, in their own way - especially with the games.