The interaction of humans with IT hardware raises all the issues encountered in this section, as well as additional ones such as the following.

• Who controls the design of technology and the pace of its introduction?
• How safe and effective is the design?
• Is technology going to extend human faculties and make work easier and more pleasant, or are machines going to displace humans and lead to mass unemployment?
• Is technology used appropriately, or should a better, possibly non-technological alternative be found?
• Which areas of human endeavour are best served by IT systems?
• Which social and ethical issues arise from a comparison of people
  and machines in the following areas: stamina, memory, accuracy, speed, analysis, synthesis, judgement, innovation, creativity?

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This article explains how over the years scientists, inventors, and other technology people have to invent things such as robots to show how robots have come to be quite useful. Robots in the case of the article, helped a man to overcome loneliness. The man saw it as that robots could definitely help out more than a human being. Robots initially found work say as, building cars in a factory they have now moved into the home in the form of Roomba the robotic vacuum cleaner and digital pets such as Tamagotchis and the Sony Aibo.