Been thinking a lot lately about this A. N. Whitehead quote: "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them" Somebody quotes it at me every few years. It's a good idea but incomplete.
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Flora and Fauna fail to advance at all (no intellectual evolution), Mankind inevitably consumes everything. Unfortunately we aren't so harmless.
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Maybe. But an operation like alphanumeric order doesn't really stir the imagination, and it's the poster child of effortless operations.
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They didn’t teach you the alphabet song huh?
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...and use as a status signal.
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