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| Originally Posted by CaptHayfever Who would've thought of mass-marketing personal computers before the 70s? (Certainly not Packard) Who would've thought of television before the people started working on it? Who would've thought of the telegraph before people started working on it? |
A) Do any of those things amount to fixing something that wasn't broken?
B) Those things all came about not because somebody wanted to give the world a bunch of fancy toys, but for improved communication (especially when you take into mind that it took a Colonial US<->France letter at least three months to arrive at its destination before the telegraph). And though you didn't mention it, the Internet was created for a way of communication in the event the Soviets launched their missiles and wiped out half of the US.
Where are these lemmings going? The
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