Keeping skills sharp in the digital intelligence age

This list of highly complex systems going haywire with fatal consequences could go on, but these two accidents may suffice to demonstrate what these incidents usually have in common. In each case, there was a human being behind the controls who should and could have taken over to save the situation, but they didn't because they failed in monitoring an automated process, trusting faulty readings or erroneous actions taken by software. Automation, to be sure, is wonderful. It makes life safer, more convenient. We have welcomed robots, whether hardware or just software, with open arms.