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I've always argued we don't have new einstiens because of computers. They suck up all the smart people like a disease and make people feel fulfilled working on
by tocomment 17y ago
I've always argued we don't have new einstiens because of computers. They suck up all the smart people like a disease and make people feel fulfilled working on trivial problems. Eg writing a tetris clone using x.
I'm not sure what the answer is.
- JabavuAdams 17y agoI feel the same way about computer games, and I make games. I spent too much time playing games in my youth, and my co-workers spend too much time playing games now.
- billswift 17y agoI read an essay a few years ago saying that the reason we aren't going into space or colonizing the oceans or any of that other neat stuff we were supposed to do, is that it is easier and more remunerative to make movies and games about doing it than to actually do it.