Paranoid Android is very fitting. I think Curtis has some great ideas - but the things like give me the toaster that 80% of the people in the world favor, just falls flat on its face. What about the other toasters? What happened to choice - to choosing something different, because it might be not as well liked, but better? I know his blog post was moreover a non-analyzed wishlist, not meant to be carefully studied. I can't help but say that the sentiment was eerily deaf and soul-less, with a lack of humanity, a kind of wishing for the uber-human. There have been so many fictional novels based on utopian cyborg scenarios, and well, they don't end well. I will agree with Curtis on one thing, if we can eliminate many menial tasks, we will be freed in time and energy for more important and jovial endeavors. This in fact, relates to the recent article about a default base wage for everyone. Interesting ideas all around, but lets not remove our humanity at the cost of optimization.