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Is there a way to find "the concerns" of people from back when MS Excel was becoming a thing? Maybe someone here can share how people took the introduction of the early days "productivity tools" like MS Word and MS Excel?

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MS Excel was a latecomer. VisiCalc was the first spreadsheet as we today know them and it was a resounding success. There weren't much concerns, there weren't really a reason to be concerned. It was not a probabilistic tool made by fascist billionaires for explicit fascist purposes exploiting the poor and destroying the environment. No. It just crunched numbers on a very accessible interface.

Ps.: see http://www.bricklin.com/firstspreadsheetquestion.htm on whether VisiCalc was the first or not.

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