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programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week agoThank you for the recommendation. I like the aesthetics of the future envisioned in the 20th century like some of Asimov books with their huge computers because he didn’t know that the future was in miniaturization of the computer. He believed that the path to increase computer power was a physical expansion of current technology.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 week ago
https://www.physics.rutgers.edu/~friedan/physics_readings/Asimov,%20Isaac/Asimov,%20Isaac,%201958,%20%22The%20Feeling%20of%20Power%22.pdf
Eight pages.
One of my all time favorite Asimov stories.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
Thank you for the read, it is a very good story. It was funny for me that a programmer would reinvent the wheel from first concepts, even if that reinvention needed to create computation again.
I think it shows that overreliance on computers would make us abstract basic concepts until no one knows such things as basic arithmetic.
DagwoodIII@piefed.social 1 week ago
If you want to scare yourself, talk to some current day grade school teachers.
programmer_belch@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 week ago
I have heard various teachers on social media speak out about the current education system in the USA.
It is dire out there with students using AI with text to speech and speech to text to avoid reading.