3 ms·Since when could books execute computations that their readers don't understand?by rbarooah 15y agoSince when could books execute computations that their readers don't understand?arethuza 15y agoYou could perhaps argue that books sometimes contain instructions that readers execute but don't necessarily understand.rbarooah 15y agoTrue, but it misses the central point that books don't execute anything themselves, and so computers are fundamentally different from them.