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I feel like the designers of this would feel the same way about the current solution involving sand that has been imbued with the ability to think. We take for
by edrxty 3y ago
I feel like the designers of this would feel the same way about the current solution involving sand that has been imbued with the ability to think.
We take for granted the abstractions and mental models/tools we have to manage the complexity of the current paradigm. No doubt, the engineers who created this had their own structures for understanding the complexity at work here.
- eternityforest 3y agoIt's almost like a foreign language! I was just in another discussion the other day about how I rarely use pen and paper, and how that affects my thoughts since my "native language" for thinking about the world is "stuff that can be said on a phone call, typed on a keyboard, or made with CAD primitives". Back in the day when everything started on paper there might have been a bigger variety of abstractions, because people were starting with a literal blank canvas and making their own tools to implement their ideas rather than most people largely just exploring the possibilities that naturally fit existing tools. Stuff is way easier now and overall tech is so much better, but I wonder if part of the cool factor people feel about old stuff is from the lack of constraint.