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Automation Is a Part of Our Daily Lives
An attempt to describe automation can be like the five blind men in the proverbial story encountering an elephant for the first time – each explores one aspect of the animal and narrates his experience accurately, yet all the narratives together do not yield an overall picture. We can look at automation in the following ways:
- Automation is a subject that can be examined in terms of components
- Automation can be examined in terms of the system software, application software, and libraries
- Significantly, automation can be understood by understanding the algorithms and the products
When we stack up these views, we are able to build a realistic 3D image of automation.
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