• SanndyTheManndy@lemmy.world
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    8 months ago

    Billions were spent inventing and producing the calculator device.

    Human calculators are now extinct.

    Complex calculations are far more accessible.

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      8 months ago

      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.

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          8 months ago

          But they were estimating things. Somehow illiterate people ran marketplaces for thousands of years.