Yeah, it seems like the physical actions around an ordinary house are just too simple and discreet for automation to be desirable. Analogue, immediate action h

Yeah, it seems like the physical actions around an ordinary house are just too simple and discreet for automation to be desirable. Analogue, immediate action have physicality that is satisfying to a our being; take out a pot, fill it with a cup of a water, add half a cup of rice, light a burner and begin the process. Sure: "give me rice!" might seem simpler but "let us now debug the rice program" will become as difficult and infinitely less satisfying. See: Ready-at-hand and all the Heideggerian terminology concerning this stuff.