The Wheel or the Computer? Which one has done more for humans?

[applecorped]

No one is asking you for one.

 

[Almo]

We wouldn't have the computer without the wheel.

 

[TMiguel]

Are you suggesting there's been no improvement on the distribution of knowledge between the time of the Guttenberg bible and now?

Sorry I haven’t been around lately to answer it.
There has been improvement on the distribution of knowledge provided by computers. But not at all has you think. The problem is access and validation, has the only method of serious information is still being exclusively printed because of access and validation.
Although you can read scientific articles on the web, there are submitted for publication on a “Printed” journal. The majority of the people get informed what is going on in the world by the “News Paper”.
So computers (and mainly the Internet), is not that much an essential element on today’s information at all.
And stating that a computer most significant use is information trading, it’s a bit downgrading the capabilities of the computer.

I don't really care about the rest of the statements because it is all out of topic anyways.

 

[Paulhoff]

http://www.ted.com/index.php/talks/brewster_kahle_builds_a_free_digital_library.html

Paul