> Whatever you do with them [computers] is automatically seen as practice of an ancient and unchanging tradition. During a nuclear war reconstruction scenario,

> Whatever you do with them [computers] is automatically seen as practice of an ancient and unchanging tradition. During a nuclear war reconstruction scenario, computing wouldn't be seen as ancient or unchanging. We'd be in a transitory period where we try and recreate computing infrastructure with what we have and the power sources we have access to. But we wouldn't develop an ancient tradition or anything.