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Joe's avatar

Another example of automation and sensors gone amuk is the supermarket's self-checkout. Rare is the day that the sensors do not detect some error of your actions that requires intervention by a store employee. This morning at checkout, some detected offense required intervention by an employee then his manager, neither which could fix whatever incorrect action the sensor detected. Meanwhile, the ice cream was melting.

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Matthew Carrico's avatar

Ray Bradbury further explored the “empty house automata” theme in his Martian Chronicles: upping the Martian house tech with a sense of self preservation. Maybe next time that auto-fan will automatically clear the occupants from the room when the fan times out. A perfectly logical solution—in a mechanistic sense—to the author’s problem!

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