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Comment by base698

7 years ago

We thought this 20 years ago sure, but I think we have enough evidence at this point that people are going to drool on their iPad playing Candy Crush instead of hacking emacs.

I believe Marvin Minskey was quoted in "The Dream Machine":

> Computers may be a bicycle for the mind, but most peoples mental output is zero. 0 * x is still zero!

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