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by sandoooo 2182 days ago
Computing saves millions of lives on a regular basis. Can't run modern agriculture or medicine or government without it.

Griping about the evils of the current gripeable is a lot of fun, though. One may even argue it's the more important of the two.

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The second sentence - perhaps paraphrased as "we can't feed or organize ourselves without precarious levels of technology" - sort of tempers the enthusiasm in the first.
> Computing saves millions of lives on a regular basis. Can't run modern agriculture or medicine or government without it.

No, we couldn't have. Computing has killed us all.

Good talk I watched the other day https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8&feature=youtu.be