“The oldest and strongest emotion of mankind is fear, and the oldest and strongest kind of fear is fear of the unknown”

― H.P. Lovecraft, Supernatural Horror in Literature

Recently, Sprout, a Japanese agriculture company announced it’s Vegetable Factory, a fully automated farm. This plays into a, now commonplace fear of humans being useless in the face of technology. Intellectuals as well as regular citizens have been debating the place technology should be put in in the workplace as most human jobs can now be fully automated. The invention of personal robots to heavy, industrial machinery have already taken away jobs, how do we know that one day humans will be 100% useless? After all, computers can analyze your facial expression and attempt to comfort you, they can drive us anywhere we wish to go, they can even shoot down the most feared humans.

Should babysitters fear the iPad, and it’s lulling capabilities? Should taxi drivers fear the Google Car? Should farmers fear the Vegetable Factory?

Well, this fear has not been exclusive to you, or this time in fact, humans have feared new technology throughout history. Its not impossible to believe law makers could catch on. Also, the companies controlling the robots know that crashing the economy for the bottom 99% of the world is a bad idea for several reasons. When you put 99% of people in a bad place, revolutions happen.