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      1 In **automation**, the essential question is how much human effort the
      2 automation saves in comparison to the requirements of the automation
      3 technology.
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      5 Mere laziness does not justify automation: modern households are full of
      6 devices that save relatively little time but waste a lot of energy.
      7 Automation is at its best at continuous and repetitive tasks that require a
      8 lot of time and/or effort from humans but only a neglectable amount of
      9 resources from a programmable device.
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     11 [[Permaculture]] wants to develop systems where nature does most of the work,
     12 and humans mostly do things like maintenance, design and building. A good
     13 place for computerized automation would therefore be somewhere between
     14 natural processes and human labor.