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This is reminiscent of the short story I, Pencil [1], which was written in 1958 about the very same topic. > I am seemingly so simple. Simple? Yet, not a singl
by cecilpl2 6y ago
This is reminiscent of the short story I, Pencil [1], which was written in 1958 about the very same topic.
> I am seemingly so simple. Simple? Yet, not a single person on the face of this earth knows how to make me. This sounds fantastic, doesn't it?
[1] https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/I,_Pencil
- jxramos 6y agoThought the same thing, there's a modern equivalent/updated version found someplace written from the perspective of an iPad or an iPhone I think.
- btilly 6y agoI prefer the pencil. It is a piece of innocuous technology that looks so simple that everyone thinks they could figure out how to make one. The fact that even something so apparently simple is so complex, makes things that look complex even more astonishing.
- dredmorbius 6y agoA deliberate, ad as it predictably turns out, fslse, piece of propaganda. https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-the-mixed-economy/ https://crookedtimber.org/2011/04/16/i-pencil-a-product-of-t...
- dredmorbius 6y agoGah. Softkeyboard strikes agan. A deliberate, and as it predictably turns out, false, piece of propaganda.