"You can't get answers to complicated questions"? Seriously? I'll assume the writer is using hyperbole. Back then, in the days of blinkenlights and switches, we

"You can't get answers to complicated questions"? Seriously? I'll assume the writer is using hyperbole. Back then, in the days of blinkenlights and switches, we did just fine answering complicated questions. It just took longer. Don't get me wrong, I'm not pining for those days - I'm googling as much as the next SWE these days. It's simply another tool you use in your work. We'd be less productive if we would have to transcribe assembly to octal and key it in via switches, too - that doesn't mean somebody who never did that isn't fit to be a software engineer. (Although, as my dad used to say about unnecessary & laborious tasks that a monkey could do, "It builds character" ;)