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AUTOMATION
The control of production processes by machines with human intervention reduced to a minimum. E.g., the automatic pilot of an airplane, a computer-controlled pharmaceutical plant. During the industrial revolution, mechanization relieved man from the more extreme burdens of physical labor, while in the current information revolution, automation relieves man from certain repetitive and mathematically complex information processing and control tasks (see robot). (krippendorff)
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