You're on point, I think. A thing doesn't need to look like R2D2 to be a robot, and our robots have already replaced a big chunk of human work: filing, analyzi

You're on point, I think. A thing doesn't need to look like R2D2 to be a robot, and our robots have already replaced a big chunk of human work: filing, analyzing, cataloguing, calculating, computing, plus all that sweet sweet business logic. I see a parallel in the rise of cuneiform and silicon: both find their primary application in optimizing bureaucracies.