[perl4ever]

Some declarations of the limits of computers jump out to me as dated:

"The inability to develop good translation software has been one of the most embarrassing failures of Artificial Intelligence. If the best computers in the world are unable to translate from French into English..."

"in the calculus final exams at my university we usually ask for exact (not decimal) answers. For example, sin(60°)=\sqrt{3}/2, not 0.866; the circumference of a circle is 2 pi r, not 6.283r"

Also, the comparison of computers to automobiles in order to dismiss them is odd, as driver's education was part of school when I attended in the 90s. And so was auto repair, which I regretted not taking in later years.

A computer from 1996 seems, in today's context, rather ironically like "simple, unstructured play material like clay, sand, blocks, rag dolls, and finger-painting sets".