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From: [email protected] (Matthew Hambley)
Subject: Re: The comp.sys.acorn.programmer FAQ
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the human race would never be foolish enough to hand
  over all the power to the machines. But we are suggesting neither that
  the human race would voluntarily turn power over to the machines nor
  that the machines would willfully seize power. What we do suggest is
  that the human race might easily permit itself to drift into a
  position of such dependence on the machines that it would have no
  practical choice but to accept all of the machines decisions. As
  society and the problems that face it become more and more complex and
  machines become more and more intelligent, people will let machines
  make more of their decision for them, simply because machine-made
  decisions will bring better result than man-made ones. Eventually a
  stage may be reached at which the decisions necessary to keep the
  system running will be so complex that human beings will be incapable
  of making them intelligently. At that stage the machines will be in
  effective control. People won't be able to just tur

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