If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?
If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them?
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I can barely get my wife to understand virtualization/containerization and she’s very intelligent, let alone someone from the 18th century who couldn’t even comprehend what a computer was.
This likely has more to do with my shitty explaining ability than anything else. 😊
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I manage computer systems.
- What's a computer? It's a fancy calculator that can make moving paintings very quickly
- What's a calculator? A fancy automatic loom that can do math like an abacus
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At some point I’d believe their head would explode. I mean they wouldn’t even understand electricity. That wasn’t until about 50 years later.
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Congrats, you're 12% there.
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