As far as the intuitive and visual resolving of 
problems, the perception and control of movements 
in a real and complex world are concerned, 
computers are by far inferior to humans. 
Moravec hopes that robotics will advance 
fastest in making up for this "delay".
Moravec draws up the "Evolution of Robots" 
up until the year 2050 and develops a 
horror scenario of our society which 
"would very nicely work without us humans".
        Hans Moravec

        THE UNIVERSAL ROBOT

        Instincts predisposing the nature and quantity of work we enjoy probably evolved during the 100 000 years our ancestors lived as hunter-gatherers. Less than l0 000 years ago the agricultural revolution made life more stable, and richer in goods and information. But, paradoxically, it requires more human labor to support an agricultural society than to live in a primitive one, and the work is of a different, "unnatural", kind, out of step with the old instincts.

        The effort to avoid it has resulted in domestication of animals, slavery and the industrial revolution. But many jobs must still be done by hand, engendering for hundreds of years the fantasy of an intelligent but soulless being that can tiressly dispatch the drudgery. But only in this century have electronic sensors and computers given machines the ability to sense their world and to think about it, and so offered a way to fulfil the wish.

        As in the fables, the side effects are likely to dominate the resulting story. Most significantly, these perfect slaves will continue to develop, and will not long remain soulless. As they increase in competence they will have occasion to make more and more autonomous decisions, and so will slowly develop a volition and purposes of their own. At the same time they will become indispensable.