Computers are fine. It’s the internet that was a problem. Some will say social media, but newsgroups were the social media of the day. If the internet remained too difficult for stupid people to access, there’d only be a small number of people poisoned by bad information and they could be safely ignored, just like in the 90s.
It’s why I say as a software engineer: computers were a mistake.
A million years ago some asshole fish decided to crawl on land and now I have to deal with IT problems.
Computers are fine. It’s the internet that was a problem. Some will say social media, but newsgroups were the social media of the day. If the internet remained too difficult for stupid people to access, there’d only be a small number of people poisoned by bad information and they could be safely ignored, just like in the 90s.
Nah, man, based on the stories my parents told me from the 70s and 80s, computers were a mistake long before the Internet.
It was as soon as the devices got in the hands of people who couldn’t program that things got bad