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Ask HN: What would you have been if there were no computers
- zura 15y agoOrdered by probability: 0. Computer Scientist ----- Other variants ----- 1. Mechanical Engineer 2. Mathematician 3. Musician 4. Chemist
- bartonfink 15y agoA trauma surgeon.
- kls 15y agoThe inventor of the computer.
- sodiumphosphate 15y agoWell, I'd probably see better and be a lot healthier. But I imagine I'd be a blood spatter analyst and vigilante serial killer, of course.
- combiclickwise 15y agolol we would have crossed paths then as I would be the world's only consulting detective.
- runjake 15y agoI guess it depends on what you'd consider a "computer", but I'd probably be into radio engineering and electronics, what I was into as a kid, before home computers were around. Sometimes, I still feel like I want to go back to it.
- mariuolo 15y agoA linguist.
- Ew7Yb0zx33GC9JJ 15y agoA ceramicist.
- geekytenny 15y agoAn oil on canvas painter...painting landscapes...
- scottyallen 15y agoA lighting designer for theater. (I nearly was, despite the existence of computers)
- HeyLaughingBoy 15y agoElectrical engineer. Probably something involving radio since I focused on Communications when getting my EE degree. After college I went to work for a company that made industrial computer I/O interfaces and then got into embedded programming instead.
- MattBearman 15y agoMusician still is my main ambition, web development is just a means to an end for me. If I didn't have web development, I'm pretty sure I'd be a mechanic, I love working on cars :)
- mrkmcknz 15y agoA pirate.
- beatpanda 15y agoJust a journalist instead of a journalist with interactive/multimedia/sysadmin skills
- klaut 15y agoA pianist or a painter. And probably broke.
- gadders 15y agoScarily, I have often wondered this and have no idea. I fear I might have become an accountant, and probably a bad one at that.
- ekm2 15y agoA mathematician
- smoove 15y agoMusician. Soometimes, while playing guitar, i wish i would not own a computer, because i'm sure my guitarplaying would be so much better... then i snap back to the real world and am happy as fuck that the computer pays my food.
- ulisesroche 15y agoI was actually going to be an animator before I picked up "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke at the uni library.