Automation is good for its own good?

[sawyl]

For a newspaper that takes itself seriously, the Guardian has a long track record of publishing hopelessly muddled opinion pieces on science and technology. Thus today's piece by Nicholas Carr decrying the dangers of computers and automation follows in a solid tradition. The whole thing is such a mess of strawmen, unfair comparisons, nirvana fallacies, cherry picking, and equivocation, it's almost impressive given its brevity...