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Asimov’s 'The Feeling of Power' and a future that forgets arithmetic
A post revisits the 1958 story’s twist: someone rediscovers how to calculate by hand.
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A poster describes Isaac Asimov’s 1958 story as imagining a future where machines do all the arithmetic and humans forget how, until someone rediscovers calculating by hand. The premise, the poster says, hits differently in 2026.
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