Phil Ochs – Automation Song
People have been talking about automation since the 1950s. Has anything really changed since then? Technology has gotten more efficient, smaller, and able to process many more inputs quickly then in the past. But many jobs aren't easy to fully automate, due to the unpredictability of life. Computers are good at doing repetitive tasks accurately, but not very good at dealing with unexpected circumstances or widely varying materials and conditions. Microcontrollers only do what they are programmed to do, they can't do anything they aren't told to do.
