Two thousand years ago, Roman citizens would count their slaves to determine how many tasks could be accomplished. Early in the twentieth century, people counted their electric motors to answer the same question. Today we count microprocessors. There are more than a hundred microprocessors in many modern homes, not counting the 50 to 80 processors in modern automobiles (Fig. 1). In fact, a microprocessor is a modern-age robot, “a mechanical or virtual artificial agent.”1
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