I was not witness to that "used to see a bright future" ... I have been worried about the machines replacing us for some time myself. Not because I'm worried a

I was not witness to that "used to see a bright future" ... I have been worried about the machines replacing us for some time myself. Not because I'm worried about being bored, but because I'm worried about who controls the finite resources. >>>> We refer to the question: What sort of creature man’s next successor in the supremacy of the earth is likely to be. We have often heard this debated; but it appears to us that we are ourselves creating our own successors; we are daily adding to the beauty and delicacy of their physical organisation; we are daily giving them greater power and supplying by all sorts of ingenious contrivances that self-regulating, self-acting power which will be to them what intellect has been to the human race. In the course of ages we shall find ourselves the inferior race. Darwin among the machines in 1863