Reply to post: No need for an algorithm to predict the future of the human race

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PhilipN Silver badge

No need for an algorithm to predict the future of the human race

We no longer need to learn anything.

We no longer need to remember anything.

We no longer need to use common sense,

The human brain, and body, will atrophy,

On the other hand we may evolve a proboscis - a long nose for example, to tap the screen when our other hand (the one not permanently angled) drizzles away to nothing. Why didn't Steve Jobs think of that? After all our eyes will lose the ability to see more than 18 inches away.

Progress!

P.S. My Dad, an engineer, once in the long ago railed against the loss of skills in using a slide rule when calculators became ubiquitous.

Oh - slide rule : it was a..... never mind. Google it.

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