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Software Engineer here: computers were a mistake.
Computers are great, it’s capitalism that is the issue.
We as a country are not ready for that conversation, yet.
Give it a year or two of food shortages and unaffordable health care
We as a planet might be though.
There's no guarantee that the US will be a cultural superpower going forward... (I think the US empire is likely to go the natural way of empires sooner than we may be ready for)
Discovering fire was a mistake. Making rocks think was a disaster.
Rocks can't think.
We made talking rocks. That's worse.
Not to oversimplify it, but first we had to make the rocks very thin, then put lightning inside them
You are forgetting the arcane patterns we have to engrave on them too.
Grok here: computers are fine, humans were a mistake