Your questions reminded me of a wonderful Asimov story where he takes this to a delightfully absurd extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power

Your questions reminded me of a wonderful Asimov story where he takes this to a delightfully absurd extreme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Feeling_of_Power Eerily relevant in our smartphone age.