ATCO1962
TCAS has helped cause and or make incidents worse than they could have been as well as help out in short term resolution
We have computers that are capable of
taking instructions and flying A/C, yet any passenger operation in this manner is many many years away.
Any computerised system that makes the decisions is even further away, thnalfully.
There will an increase in computer aids, but not a total take over.
What is worrying is that future ATCOs will not have the training and therefore the skills to go back to real controlling when the computer programmes designed to assist (medium range alerts/ planning etc) fail.