then why is this joke not so funny?
You think computers serve man rather than man serving computers?...
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HA! Computers are like women.
You don't appreciate em until they go down on you.
You don't appreciate em until they go down on you.
Yeah, but I remember a world without them, past NORAD, and the world honestly worked perfectly fine without them and provided so many jobs and good pay for people now thrown in the wastebin of history, both all the people and all the jobs....typist pools, filing clerks and sorters, graphic (true) artists, skilled labor, etc etc etc and information lasted nearly forever past catastrophic fire rather than disappearing forever in an eyeblink when a circuit blew.HA! Computers are like women.
You don't appreciate em until they go down on you.
There is nothing new here, I have read of, and expected this for my entire life...
A novel as to a world dominating computer from 1948...
The Brain
www.gutenberg.org
A satirical look at autonomous flying weapon systems from the early 1950s...
Watchbird
www.gutenberg.org
Not to mention later "Colossus: The Forbin Project" book from the 1960s and movie of 1970s, and Clarke's HAL of "2001".
Unless you’re in your 80s, you don’t remember a time without them, you just remember a time when you didn’t notice them.
Next thing you know you’ll be telling me you’re old enough to remember when MTV played music videos.
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