robotic freedom

Will the looming robot age bring a new renaissance with leisure time for all and a flowering of creativity? Or a new dark age filled with turmoil and insecurity? The choice is ours.

Read this piece by Marshall Brain -- creator of the HowStuffWorks web site and a heap of books for kids and books on computer programming. He is also member of the Academy of Outstanding Teachers at North Carolina State University, where he taught computer science.
http://marshallbrain.com/robotic-freedom.htm

It offers excellent insights into the problem and a fairly simple-to-implement solution.

(I found out about this via cpolk.)