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2026-04-25 23:58 UTC

@Salum In the 1950s Isaac Asimov wrote “A feeling of power” abouta low-level tech who rediscovers pencil and paper arithmetic in a future where humanity has completely forgotten that humans ever did math themselves, relying entirely on calculators. The military gets excited: a human who can compute ballistic trajectories is effectively a free guidance system, making people-guided missiles much cheaper than computers-guided ones.

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