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minus-squareSanndyTheManndy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up20arrow-down1·1 year agoBillions were spent inventing and producing the calculator device. Human calculators are now extinct. Complex calculations are far more accessible.
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down13·1 year agoThis has a secondary effect of making average people incapable of estimation in their heads. Hopefully in the future people won’t be incapable of writing and art.
minus-squareSanndyTheManndy@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up13·1 year agoAverage people weren’t doing complex math in their head back when human calculators were a thing.
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·1 year agoBut they were estimating things. Somehow illiterate people ran marketplaces for thousands of years.
Billions were spent inventing and producing the calculator device.
Human calculators are now extinct.
Complex calculations are far more accessible.
This has a secondary effect of making average people incapable of estimation in their heads. Hopefully in the future people won’t be incapable of writing and art.
Average people weren’t doing complex math in their head back when human calculators were a thing.
But they were estimating things. Somehow illiterate people ran marketplaces for thousands of years.