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But we have established engineering industries best practices to learn from, but it seems like we aren't.


Like, building bridges? (even there, we still struggle with, not technological issues, but budgeting/governance/contracting/management).

How many generations of people have passed since computers are around?

Not enough that we can pragmatically reflect upon it.

See, we can say we collectively have some understanding of what the invention of the printing press, and its consequences on societies, cultures, and history. As well as, before it, writing.

I think we still can't say much the same about computers. We barely see (and not everyone yet) how much it impacted and enabled to impact our societies, public & private discourse, political endeavours and regimes.




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