Until that happens the role of the pilot is going to become increasingly dull, as the reach of flight automation continues to grow. Perhaps the role of co-pilot will become the first casualty once automation and captain can be considered each other's redundancy
I bet it wasn't dull for the few hours before landing on this afternoons Virgin 747 to Las Vegas !!!!
I wonder how "the computers" would have handled this situation, not to mention pax "announcements" in such a situation if FULLY dependant on computers.