On: The last time my family was replaced by technology

[wccrawford]

I'm not sure I can quite agree with that. I'd say that spreadsheets definitely reduced the need to manually calculate things, and calculators before that, and the abacus before that.

I basically agree with your "higher level reasoning", but not your statement that we previously only automated muscles.

[ZeWaka → wccrawford]

see: when 'computer' was a job title

Also relevant: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_obsolete_occupations