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Or as Scott Adams expressed it in chapter 1 of "The Dilbert Future": Good trend: Computers allow us to work 100% faster Unexpected bad thing: Computers genera

• em-bee 5y ago
  yup, computers help us solve problems that we would not have without them
• agumonkey 5y ago
  Here's a sad anecdote: This is from a courthouse, they have a web application to register and edit formal requests from lawyers. Decent computers, ok network and printers. From: - listening to the lawyer, - (potentially reloging due to session timeouts), - accessing the right case through a long ID, - re asking the lawyer about the case ID because half the time they confuse with another ID system, - retrying to fetch the case, - selecting a bunch of options (most are direct mapping from ID to value, ID is actually concatenation of these values) - clicking a few more times, - reinputing some the already redundant values and waiting for the system to generate the .odt. - If that does not fail, you get an activex embed view of the document, - which is 10-15% of the time incorrect in a few places, so manual edit here we go. - You can now print it x2 You spent 5 full minutes on this. One day, network failed so no more web app. Girls told me they have a stash of old printed templates to fill manually. So I took the piece of paper, and while talking to the lawyer I could write things on the fly. It took 30 seconds, no wait, no uncertainty, no redundancy, no last minute error correction. Middle age monks > 2000s technology (when implemented in absurdia)