Well-written article for digital lightweights like me! Thanks. It begs a few questions though, like who voted to be so dependent of this janga pile? It's getting to the point that if you don't have web access you don't exist. My poor aged mother doesn't have a cell phone or a computer and guess who gets to deal with all her necessary services? That would be your truly. You say it’s worth asking exactly how these digital systems work, but even if I know, it doesn't change the fact that I have no choice but to be dependent on them. Anyway, I guess you can see where I'm at with the all-digital all-day mentality. I feel it has made life way too complicated and way to dependent on big tech. It's like we designed a civilization that presupposes unlimited and infinite access to electricity. Does that make any sense? Historians of the future will likely be able to know a lot more about the 19th Century than they'll be able to find out about us. Oh well, I've gone way off the subject here. You are telling me how it all fits together and, for that, this was very informative. Thanks.
Thank you -- you bring up a few great questions that I didn't get a chance to talk about in this article, so I might do a follow-up in the future. Regarding your question about who voted to be so dependent on these systems, a few interesting people come to mind, including Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Claude Shannon, who all played a major role in laying out the architecture and theory of the first computers. However, turning theory into practice is another problem entirely and that's where I imagine a lot of these issues originated.
Well-written article for digital lightweights like me! Thanks. It begs a few questions though, like who voted to be so dependent of this janga pile? It's getting to the point that if you don't have web access you don't exist. My poor aged mother doesn't have a cell phone or a computer and guess who gets to deal with all her necessary services? That would be your truly. You say it’s worth asking exactly how these digital systems work, but even if I know, it doesn't change the fact that I have no choice but to be dependent on them. Anyway, I guess you can see where I'm at with the all-digital all-day mentality. I feel it has made life way too complicated and way to dependent on big tech. It's like we designed a civilization that presupposes unlimited and infinite access to electricity. Does that make any sense? Historians of the future will likely be able to know a lot more about the 19th Century than they'll be able to find out about us. Oh well, I've gone way off the subject here. You are telling me how it all fits together and, for that, this was very informative. Thanks.
Thank you -- you bring up a few great questions that I didn't get a chance to talk about in this article, so I might do a follow-up in the future. Regarding your question about who voted to be so dependent on these systems, a few interesting people come to mind, including Alan Turing, John von Neumann, and Claude Shannon, who all played a major role in laying out the architecture and theory of the first computers. However, turning theory into practice is another problem entirely and that's where I imagine a lot of these issues originated.
Ouch. You made me feel old. I had to learn how to type in commands when I was in elementary school. It was the only way to play hangman.
Haha, it's always fun to reminisce about prehistoric technology.
Learned a lot. Good article.
Thank you Mr. Orenstein