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Maybe, but it will be a bitter laugh tempered by two aspects:

1) he was kinda right

2) he had no way of knowing how good we had it in 2026 by comparison with what was to come after

Kinda right in terms of what? That we're still upgrading servers to push bits even faster? That we're staring at a screen for half the day? That we're days into fixing bugs that we thought would only take an hour? All of that has been true since the 80s.

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