Computers are useless. They can only give you answers. Pablo Picasso.
Respond to this quote.
I didn't post yesterday. After getting home from work last night I was busy cleaning up the house and do all my chores I normally do on the weekend. That way I could spend the afternoon with my parents. They stayed an extra week longer on vacation that I did. But they are home now!!
When I first look at this quote I find it hard to believe that Pablo Picasso really understood how the computer would end up. He died in 1973, long before the computer as we know it today was around. Computers at that time were mostly for military use, help with calculating information, and a way to print and process symbols. The first personal computer came out in 1971, and was nothing like computers now.
However, I think what Picasso was getting at was that computers are useless because they only give answers. It is us, the user/person, who controls those answers. This is because we are the ones who ask the questions, who seek the information, and who control the computer. Computers don't have the power; we do. We not only seek the answers, we provide them. Without us using them and creating them, computers would not be what they are today.
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