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It's all been pretty boring since the harnessing of fire.

• coldtea 14y ago
  Certainly. For example conversation without BS snide remarks seems to be a lost art.
  • icebraining 14y ago
    I've upvoted your posts, but claiming that computers did nothing more than improve delivery of porn and commerce is borderline trolling, particularly on HN. While I can agree that computing is often overpraised, there's still more to it than porn and commerce (e.g. being an indispensable tool in reaching other planets).
  • dasil003 14y ago
    The last clause of your response doesn't make sense so maybe you're not responding to me, but just in case you were serious: Snide yes, but BS no. The industrial revolution did nothing to the quality of life compared to cooking food and scaring wild animals away. The point is that it takes more and more work to make meaningful progress. The low fruit has been picked. Minimizing the impact of computation is what is BS since there is almost no aspect of life and the economy that hasn't been greatly impacted by it.