Analysis:
This entire argument contradicts itself with the implication of simplicity. It now becomes an argument of hierarchical value. How will society be able to break itself down? If a well organized machine now becomes responsible for the lives of children, what then is the use of parental guidance? Their need or use is unnecessary with the exception of reproduction. Will the purpose of the machines be to create a society in which each person can live for long periods of time, supported only by the use of computers as its source of existence? If not for computers people would be forced to complete everyday activities by themselves. If not for people, computers would cease to exist. An immediate consequence of the Faustian bargain in obtaining the great power of nano technology is that we run a grave risk – the risk that we might destroy the biosphere on which all life depends (246). “In the game of life and evolution there are three players at the table: human beings, nature and machines. I am firmly on the side of nature. But nature, I suspect, is on the side of the machines” (244).