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The Covid19 lockdown and distancing measures would be much harder on society and on the economy without modern means of remote work and communication. So much s
by svara 6y ago
The Covid19 lockdown and distancing measures would be much harder on society and on the economy without modern means of remote work and communication. So much so in fact, that they may otherwise have been impossible.
Therefore, computing may just have saved millions of lives.
- sandoooo 6y agoComputing 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.
- chacha2 6y ago> 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5WPB2u8EzL8&feature=youtu.be
- walleeee 6y agoThe 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.