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This analogy breaks down because computers aren't going away unlike horse drawn carriages or sailing vessels. Computers aren't being replaced by something. It's
by TehCorwiz 23d ago
This analogy breaks down because computers aren't going away unlike horse drawn carriages or sailing vessels. Computers aren't being replaced by something. It's that fewer people will understand how they work while the efficiency and reach of computers extends into areas of life previously unreachable due to the scale of having humans build it or the refusal of humans.
I could wax philosophical about what that leads to but enough people already have.
- jp57 23d agoBoats didn't go away with the demise sailing as a commercially viable mode of transport.
- jplusequalt 23d ago>Boats didn't go away with the demise sailing as a commercially viable mode of transport. No, but there's now more people who know how to engineer reliable ships then ever before. In 10 years, how many people will still understand the codebases they work on?
- tim333 22d agoQuite a lot of people do competitive sailing and horse riding so the skills are there but amongst less people.