“China has legally purchased high performance computers, advanced machine tools, and semiconductor-manufacturing equipment from several American companies.”
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Personally, I rather look forward to a computer program winning the world chess championship. Humanity needs a lesson in humility.
The good news about computers is that they do what you tell them to do. The bad news is that they do what you tell them to do.
This is what customers pay us for - to sweat all these details so it's easy and pleasant for them to use our computers. We're supposed to be really good at this. That doesn't mean we don't listen to customers, but it's hard for them to tell you what they want when they've never seen anything remotely like it.
Few companies that installed computers to reduce the employment of clerks have realized their expectations... They now need more, and more expensive clerks even though they call them 'operators' or 'programmers.'