And how might trends or forces converge to create even more formidable threats or bigger opportunities?
Cfengine makes it practical to seek an ideal state, and easy to converge to that state.
It's very easy to estimate the scheduling cost of adding systems or replacing them when your machines will converge to a known state shortly.
However, as shown in Part I, the proportions of beautiful faces of all races converge toward a universal ideal.
To the extant that some robots will do the kind of work that we have used animals for (such as transportation, hauling) those robots will converge toward animal forms.