My first "job" in computing, where someone else paid me for code, was in a research context where we were modeling radio propagation. Nothing about that was removing human labor. It in face eventually called for a bunch of humans to interact with each other. See: https://www.hamsci.org/basic-project/2017-total-solar-eclips...
replyI don't think it is fair to claim computers are about putting people out of jobs.
I think it is. Before computers you would have had to write all that down on paper logs. By using code, you saved yourself time. If it wasn't less labor, you wouldn't have done it that way.
reply> Before computers
replyComputer used to mean "human who does math". Before machine computers, we had human computers. Machine computers replaced all of these human computers.
Before it was less labor, they might not have done it at all. Computers let you do things quicker. So you do more things.
replyOk, then go work on homelessness or political corruption. It's not like we have a dearth of problems. Coding is solved.
replyPeople *did* write down these logs, manually, and submit them.
replyAnd without software, what then, make a bunch of books and mail it to all these people? On this site of all sites, it's blowing my mind that this kind of thing isn't obvious to everyone. I guess maybe it isn't if you were born before the internet, but man, I'm really surprised by some of these comments.
replyHuman labor could do the math by hand
replyAnd in fact, was how it was done.
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