🇺🇦 haxadecimal 🚫👑 on Nostr: Reminds me of a different story, Asimov's "The Feeling of Power", in which a future ...

Reminds me of a different story, Asimov's "The Feeling of Power", in which a future mathematician discovers that it is possible to do arithmetic without a computer, for instance, using pencil and paper. He hypothesizes that at some point in the past, humans had to do arithmetic that way, because someone had to have programmed the computers to do it. At first, no one believes him, and they all consider him to be a crank. Everyone knows that you need a computer for arithmetic!