# Introduction

![Artificial intelligence (AI)](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/AI.png)

![Robots](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/robot.png)

We can think about each emerging technology as a **superpower**.

Superpowers work in two realms: the physical world where things are tangible, made of material, made of “stuff” – the world of atoms\
and in the realm of imagination, intuition - the digital world of bits.

(See the red ones (1) and zeros (0) ? ... those represent bits. The blue flower looking things are atoms)

**Automator** is the first superpower we will learn about.

The **Automator** is the power to *automate* things. In the world of bits and information it means creating programs that “think” by themselves. In the world of atoms, it goes further, having machines that do stuff on their own.

*Artificial Intelligence (AI*) and *Robots* give the abilities for automation.

(Of course they both rely on Computing as well as other things like *Energy.*)

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In the *Convergence Canvas*, a visual thinking tool we'll introduce later, automator fits as this:

![Convergence Canvas Automator](https://s3.amazonaws.com/img.courses.warmersun.com/progressandpredictions/Convergence+Canvas+Automator.png)