The Robot Revolution

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intrinsically human, such as sports, entertainment, scientific research." The value of many things will eventually change, since every thing made by machine will come to seem commonplace and everything made by hand, even a pair of knitted socks, will acquire the quality of rarity.

To guide all these potential changes will require a degree of ethical judgment and social organization that humanity has rarely shown any sign of possessing. Just as the computer itself derives, however, from the simple proposition that all mathematical logic can be reduced to various combinations of zero and one, these revolutionary upheavals in human society are clearly vis ible in the distance. Indeed, they can be seen already in the birdlike contraptions that poke their fiery beaks into the un finished steel frames at the Jefferson plant in East Detroit.

By Otto Friedrich. Reported by Christopher Redman/Detroit and Janice C. Simpson/New York