Is a brave new world of robot workers at hand? Maybe not

Warning bells sounded this week as The Times published "Robots are coming for your job." The opinion piece predicts: "Human workers of all stripes pound the table claiming desperately that they're irreplaceable. Meanwhile, corporations and investors are spending billions toward making all those jobs replaceable." Wait a minute, chorused our letter writers, not so fast. Part of the problem is that robots and machines are terrific workers but lousy customers.