"As an old timer, I always worry that we used to do Things That Mattered using the Cray 2 supercomputer, like forecast the weather or simulate nuclear explosions, whereas the bulk of the ipad's compute power is being deployed to watch cat videos on youtube. We have yet to re-imagine our world in terms of these new powers."
In 1977, I remember being thrilled that we would be getting a new computer since my requirement was to handle a 25x25 matrix that the existing system could not do.
Yet, I use all the computing power we now have to "watch cat videos".
In 1977, I remember being thrilled that we would be getting a new computer since my requirement was to handle a 25x25 matrix that the existing system could not do.
Yet, I use all the computing power we now have to "watch cat videos".
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