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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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