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Originally Posted by herr_oberst
Also, I have no math skills at all, so it just flummoxes me that this and so much of what made the industrial nations great, is the fact that so much of these machines were designed on the drafting board using slide rules. No Cray supercomputer to help crunch the numbers. It boggles the mind. . .
Can you imagine what we could do if we could harness that kind of brain power again, with modern tools?
Oh well, at least we have realistic video games.
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What leads you to believe we are not harnessing that kind of brainpower with modern tools? I see evidence of it everyday.