Found some funny 'truths' about computers written years ago:
1~ "We've all heard that a million monkeys banging on a million typewriters will eventually reproduce the entire woks of Shakespeare. Now, thanks to the Internet, we know this is not true."
- Robert Wilensky, 1997
2~ " Programming today is a race between software engineers striving to build bigger and better idiot proof programs and the Universe trying to produce bigger and better idiots. So far, the Universe is winning".
- Rick Cook 1989
3~ "To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer."
- The Farmers Almanac 1978
Shopping and looking up information on Google have become much easier since the internet...but the vulnerabilities to finances, electrical grid etc.as well as the misinformation and propaganda and sheer glut of noise and distraction seem to me to have not really benefited humanity much. I sometime think that the tech industry has perpetrated a massive scam on the world with promises of an improved lifestyle, when in fact they have profited massively while introducing a new set of problems. As always there is no changing human nature, so the power of technology to aid such 'revolutions' as the 'Arab spring' also helps ISIS types to recruit mass murderers with the click of a mouse.
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