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Pocket calculators automated forms of computation that had been regarded as inherently human activities.
Adam Becker · Every Exponential Ends — Silicon Valley Forgot — Adam Becker · 20 Aug 2026
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“You know, calculators took something that, and I mean like pocket calculators, right?”
“They took something that like...”
“we thought of as this inherent human activity of, you know, like that kind of computation, like for function mathematics and automated it. And it used to be that to be a good mathematician.”Play from 27:32Report a misattribution
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