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"And none of them ran excel or World of warcraft."

His argument is that Excel and World of Warcraft are not much of a qualitative improvement over life in the 1950s.



I think that a lot of businessowners and accountants would disagree strongly about excel.


The business managed to get by with old paper books somehow until 1980s. Granted, VisiCalc and its clones gave a boost to productivity, but it is not ground breaking in same way the invention of lightbulb or construction of jet engine was.




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