Let's say it costs twenty thousand dollars and only does about 70 percent of what an employee does. But you'd be wrong. As computer software and hardware gets more complex, it gets harder to find all the problems in a system before it's used. And in war, people can get killed because of flawed software. Unfortunately, some of our biggest systems are now too complex for us to completely predict their behavior.
Nothing is more certain than death, taxes, and mistakes.
Once again, life, that endless dance to adapt to the universe and to itself, is about to change all the rules. It's gathering itself for a great leap in intelligence. The consequences for our species are likely to be extreme.