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The article discusses about the dependence of human beings on complex automated systems. At work, at home, at play, on the streets, in sickness and in health, human beings are ever more dependent on computers and networks for support, even survival. If this is continued, human beings will not have the knowledge and skill to weather a major crash. Liberation from intellectual toil carries certain risks, since capacities can atrophy from disuse. Thus, one should render to computer what is the computer's, and to the human being what is the human being's. Everything has limitations. Commenting on the one-person-one-vote principle in a democracy, Bertrand Russell observed that in a population of n, a person has a 1/n share in the government of the community, but at the same time only a 1/n share in the governance of oneself. This does not argue against democracy, but in favor of parsimony in granting government jurisdiction over issues that could be handled by the individual. Similarly, care should be exercised in assigning tasks to the computer. No formula for such an allocation is at hand. There is no substitute for eternal vigilance

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