“This means that although they are theoretically subject to human criticism, such criticism may be ineffective.” The author of Extrapolation, Interpolation, and Smoothing of Stationary Time Series saw that ever-faster machines would inevitably leave human beings behind. “By the very slowness of our human activities, our effective control of our machines may be nullified,” he added, citing computer-controlled nuclear weapons and computer-controlled manipulation of the stock market as two of the ways that power was being relinquished to the machines.
