[ClearCase_guy]

Exactly right. I think of Asimov's vision quite a lot. I imagine some folks find it very appealing, and wouldn't mind spilling an ocean of blood to get there.

On the flip side is Frank Herbert's "Dune" series in which humans (long, long ago) waged a "Butlerian Jihad" and eliminated all thinking machines, all computers and all robots. because they saw them as a danger to human life.

[Kommodor]

Yar, but unlike Herbert, I’d suspect the problem isn’t so much the ‘thinking machines’ as the people who programmed them in the first place. Garbage in, genocide out.