great read. does this story reminds anyone else of The Giver (the highlight of 5th grade's conscripted reading)?
That was what I was thinking too!
“Profession” (1957)
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Re: “Profession” (1957)
#22Ah, spot the anachronism - the 1950s view of the future 100s of years from now: > "Now what’s a Programmer going to be doing? Sitting all day long, feeding some fool mile-long machine.”
What's the combined length of Google's data centers?
That thought had crossed my mind. An individual data center? I don't know, probably a lot less than a mile. Apparently they vary: https://huanliu.wordpress.com/2012/03/13/amazon-data-center-...
The whole lot put together, certainly larger than a mile.
Minimum size, in a few hundred years time? Definitely not larger than a mile.
Re: “Profession” (1957)
#23This was a great story, thank you for posting it