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by snowwrestler 3607 days ago
> Computing has shown dramatic improvements in the past decade but outside of having an app for everything in my phone, nothing has really changed in the past two decades.

I suspect this says more about your ignorance of other industries, than anything else. Modern pharmaceutical research or medical imaging would be impossible without powerful computing. CRISPR is impossible without powerful computing. Self-driving cars are impossible without powerful computing.

Heck, GE has an entire series of ads about the impact of computing on their industrial technologies like turbines, locomotives, etc., which mocks the "technology is just apps" mindset.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvfU1NpCJQQ