The thought of inflicting pain on unlucky people bothered Julian, so instead of personally telling the impoverished family who lived in the house that they would have to leave he asked the county sheriff to evict them.
So it looks like firefighters may be the next unlucky professionals replaced by cheap robotic labor, at least if a snakebot built by the Foundation for Industrial and Scientific Research in Norway (SINTEF) ever makes it into mass production.
But never does he arrive at the conclusion that has been forced on his successor Hayward: By building the company so rapidly, and with such reliance on risky new technology, Browne built an enterprise that was doomed to be unlucky.