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So you think that Internet is not changing the world at all? or that computing in general is not enabling to discover and create fantastic things (like the LHC)

• atmosx 13y ago
  Computing hm. Yes it's a tool. Scientists at LHC are changing the world, programmers... No they don't. Why would you think so? The internet is changing the world for better and worst at the same time. It's a tool (as any other technology out there). The internet enabled me and you (probably from a different country/TZ) exchanging views on this (and other) matters which is GREAT. I LOVE it. But it also makes possible massive surveillance by the NSA like never before. It's a tool depends on how you use it. It doesn't advance society necessarily, as a whole. The internet didn't help the end of Africans starving, didn't stop any wars, etc. Ghandi and Mandela did. Democracy gave power to the society, Einstein helped us understand the universe, Planck quantum physics, Watson and Crick explained the DNA structure, etc. Turing yes, Dijkstra totally. But not average Google/Apple programmer creating expensive gadgets for the masses. No way.