Terry,
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Welcome back! I’m so pleased you have returned.
I think the point you make is correct, and there is a way of looking at it which does not challenge the role of human designers but rather augmenting what they already do.
I’m sitting at my desk now thinking about design because I have just pressed the button on my dishwasher (not my wife, but a nice shiny white box which rumbles quietly in the background, unlike my wife… )
Anyway, returning to the subject at hand. I see the computer not as a means of disposing of me but as a way of relieving me from tedious routine tasks and undertaking tasks that people cannot do, llke millions of computations per nano second. All glory to the machine!
I would also welcome a computer that can deal with most of my email. Indeed, if I think about it, I have already automated over ninety percent of this tedious task with various spam filters and rules which either block or redirect incoming stuff. (It’s amazing though that my physical paper recycling bin still overflows each week!)
But I would not want a computer to answer this email to you and the list, even if it could display a sense of mechanical humour. And I seriously object to machines trying to talk to me as if they were human. I have no problem with them talking to each other. I must interrupt now because my wife has just pressed my dog walking button.
Warm, none mechanical thoughts,
David
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