Uh... Metaphor anyone? (Score 1)

Apparently, the author really didn't understand what he was using a metaphor here...

I completely agree that there is a danger here. Maybe not the doomsday, us versus the machines, Terminator style end of days for humanity. More likely scenario: we no longer have an industry devoted to maintaining and building computer networks. Millions of techies out of work. Driverless cars and delivery vehicles put cabbies, bus and truck drivers out of work... un-employment sky rockets to > 40% in just a few years in all of the 1rst world. Wars break out between countries looking for new resources to feed the people within their borders, etc.....

Honestly though, the possibility of either a killer plague of some kind or even a massive natural catastrophe are just as real. For instance, the newly discovered asteroid 2014 UF56 will pass within 160k miles of earth today. And we just discovered it 2 days ago!