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Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by paavokoya on Friday July 22, 2016 @02:12PM (#12145490)
>It took more than 1000 years (from Babylon to Archaic Greece) for us to go from writing with only consonants to using vowels for the first time

Yeah and it took "us" 60 years from discovering flight to landing a rocket on the moon. Took "us" 60 years from the first computer to globally-live video streaming in your pocket. Time is a pointless metric when it comes to technology. You don't know what someone is cooking up down in some basement somewhere that will be released tomorrow and shatter your concept of reality.

Re:The future is fewer people writing code? by mooreds on Friday July 22, 2016 @03:33PM (#12146164)
I wonder if 'leisure-person years' is a better metric of progress (where 'leisure' is defined as the number of hours you can spend neither raising/searching for food nor sleeping).

Be really hard to identify, though.