[minkzilla]

The point of the comic that that from the outside no one knows how far along hard problems are, not that in and of themselves they are hard. Both the tasks in the comic rely on decades of foundational work in computing and even photography, the author is not saying all of that was easy up until GIS.

[soufron]

I totally agree. The comics is right - it's Munroe after all, but it's the analysis of the blog author that I am divergent with.

[minkzilla]

Ah that makes sense. I must admit I did not even read the analysis of the comic.