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minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up5arrow-down13·2 years 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-up13·2 years agoAverage people weren’t doing complex math in their head back when human calculators were a thing.
minus-squareKevonLooney@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3arrow-down8·2 years agoBut they were estimating things. Somehow illiterate people ran marketplaces for thousands of years.
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.