it's all part of the great move towards sacking people and doing their jobs with machines, isn't it? These days I'm invited to check myself out and pay at Tescos without the need for staff to take my money at all. Within five years this will quite likely be the only option.
Same with computers for the lasses with calculators in the accounts department, CTVs for policemen, and those fancy little robots that paint cars like Picasso.
Some of it is worth it - cars built by robots these days last an awful lot longer than 50 years ago, when you expected to break down every month and probably to fix it yourself.
As for CCTV: nobody seems to mind, on the basis that we are awash with the crime (the Mail tells us so) and therefore need to do what it takes to catch the perpetrators. Why aren't they working? Mechanical defects, or just not enough cops to search through the footage - but to rectify that would mean hiring more people, and that's against the spirit of the age.