Robots are working, a person is happy

Continuation

Oh God help me remember, what did I write about automation?

I wrote that automation makes life easier and therefore people apply it wherever they can.
But, despite the fact that robots are doing more and more, people for some reason do not become freer.

Probably, freedom is buried somewhere else.

Well, I also wrote that automation, it is everywhere, even where we do not expect to see it.
You can even say that this is one way to look at the world.

What is automation?

It seems so clear.

Automation - one of the directions of scientific and technological progress, using self-regulating technical means and mathematical methods with the goal of freeing a person from participation in the processes of obtaining, converting, transmitting and using energy, materials, products or information, or a significant reduction in the degree of this participation or the laboriousness of the operations performed. (c) Wiki,

in order to free the person from participation in the processes (highlighted by me)

It is hard to read, because there are too many common terms.
Energy, information, operations ... for whom do they write this?

The bottom line is that everything is done by itself, automatically.
Fiddler Man is not needed.
The process has gone, but we do not participate in it.

And what about man?

And it's true, if everything is automated, then why people are needed at all?

I heard a real story about one programmer who automated everything in his office and sat spitting on the ceiling. I did not know how long this lasted, but one day he was fired.

And why is it needed, because everything is working itself.

Okay, said this programmer and went to the Internet cafe.
There were once such cafes with access to the Internet, and maybe now there is.
In general, he sat there at the computer, maybe even drank coffee and, at the office in which he worked, something suddenly, for some reason, broke.

The fairy tale ended happily, the owners took him back to work and began to appreciate.

Not in the topic

The tale is not in the subject, you will say and you will be right.
After all, this programmer was one of the elements of an automated system.
Like a bolt in the car.

There was once such a view of man as a gear in a state machine.
And maybe it was not.
Maybe now there is.

In general, the role of the person in that history was played by the owners of the office where this programmer worked.

So why people are needed?

Here is the answer.
To enjoy the fruits of automation.

And to configure the process so that it does not buggy, worked without failures.
And to monitor its work.

What happened before?

And now, in order to better understand what I'm going to talk about next, we need to make a short digression into the story.

What was before automation?

When there were no robots, computers, calculators, before they counted on the abacus.

Do you know what abacus are? Well, OK.

Okay, I'm done.
To be continued.

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Translated from Russian with the help of Google translator.
The original is here.