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Reflecting on Steve Jobs' "bicycle for the mind" comment

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    In the ~30+ years of personal computing, computers have certainly become more accessible, in that billions of people today own a computing device, that can in principle be used for general purpose...

    In the ~30+ years of personal computing, computers have certainly become more accessible, in that billions of people today own a computing device, that can in principle be used for general purpose computing. But beyond making it easier for people to consume content and communicate, have we really succeeded in improving human thinking the way a bicycle improved human locomotion?

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