ok boomer On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 1:20 PM Jim Manley via cctalk <cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 18, 2020 at 4:08 PM Toby Thain via cctalk < > cctalk@classiccmp.org> > wrote: > > Is this blather on topic? > > > > If so I need to be on a different list. > > > > Go ahead, if you think you can enjoy ignoring the reality that exists > outside an imaginary bubble. Computing was, and is, used for all sorts of > useful purposes, including protecting people from their own negligence. We > crossed the Rubicon in the late 1980s when it comes to preventing world > hunger, because without computing and high-speed telecommunications, > production and distribution of food world-wide for a population closing in > on eight billion people would be impossible. Likewise for pretty much any > economic undertaking in any sector, anywhere, these days. Look what's > happening to the supply chains coming out of China now that 1.3 billion > people are increasingly being quarantined in response to a virus with a > speck of RNA that kills. > > Those who fail to learn the lessons of history are doomed to repeat them, > even if subsequent stanzas may only rhyme. That includes computing > history, as it's been entwined in making all of our existences possible. >
