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This assumption (JCS-Foundations, pp. 101-102), while stro ng and persistent, is
wrong. The gap between what researchers observe in terms of the actual effects
that follow each wav e of new technology and the c laims of advocate s for
inves tment in and adoption of that technology reveals the problem (Woods &
Dekker, 2000). Twenty years ap art, the following state ments use virtually the same
words to describe the consequences of developing new computer-based intelligent
or agent systems as if it were only a simple substitution of one agent for another.
1984: … one of the big problems is the tendency for the m a chine to
domina te the human … consequently an experienced integrated circu it
designer is forced into an unfort ...