No, I cannot imagine a world completely taken over by technology for the simple reason of oversight. Despite the rise of technology and the continuous rise of jobs being replaced by technology, the simple fact remains: Human control will preside above all machines. As we keep making smarter and more efficient technology we will be able to control certain motives residing within these "robots" that will always ensure that power will be given to the humans who make the machines. For example, a chip can be placed within the robots mind to ensure it is never disobedient or attempt to take down it's "master". This is similar in Marxism where the workers are put down through constant propaganda and the idea that they must work the whole and that they just complete there work of they will be replaced - value is given to the product of the work and not the individual. Because of this we can compare blue-collar workers to robots, since most of them know that they are being underpaid in our society yet refuse to take action against larger companies.
Only yesterday AIG took $100 million in bailout money and distributed the emergency income amongst the highest executives - the people's response? nothing. We live in a society where we are comatose objects going to and fro from our "duties" without ever questioning value and a want of something more. For these reasons I believe that those in power will always keep one thing in their mind before any action - their safety of power in relation to their decision-making. Therefore there will never be a society completely run by machines without the oversight of at least one human being controlling the working class.
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