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Joe Winter 🪩🤸♀️🏳️🌈This strip came out in 1995. What would Calvin’s dad have to say about technology in 2022? 😬🫠 #CalvinandHobbes
Musicbaum@joemoewin As I CBC radio reporter in 1989, I did a series on technologies that were virtually nonexistent at the beginning of the decade - PCs, cell phones, fax. This comic sums it up my series nicely.
Ryle 🏳️🌈To be honest, I really appreciatae the fact I can get my work done faster now than I could the 90s. More time chilling doing what I want instead of waiting the edge of my seat for the computer to complete each action.
Half-Lawyer, Half-Godfather@joemoewin I worked for an attorney in 1998 who did not want to have an email address. Her reasoning was much the same as in this cartoon.
kopio@joemoewin My clients have the habit of sending the job and wanting it URGENTLY ASAP NOW!
Nonie@kopio @joemoewin
SAME!!! Like, bruh - you are not my only customer. My queue is full. We've been operating with a skeleton crew since the Before Times (pre COVID), and that ain't changing any time soon. Chill.
SAME!!! Like, bruh - you are not my only customer. My queue is full. We've been operating with a skeleton crew since the Before Times (pre COVID), and that ain't changing any time soon. Chill.
bss, super geniusIf we wanted more leisure, we’d invent machines that do things less efficiently.
and thus JavaScript was born
Michaela Sue@joemoewin I do protein chemistry / analytical biochemistry / proteomics and the technology has advanced so much that in 1995 I'd need 66 minutes to get one amino acid from one pure protein by sequencing with Edman chemistry and now I can give you abundance ratios between 1500 proteins in a dozen samples in three weeks for a few thousand dollars so at least for me it's not quite like this, so far...Not that people can't complain *even now*
James Harris@joemoewin I used to to work in graphic design when Mac OS 9 was still around. It couldn’t handle multitasking, so when sending a big job to the printer my computer would be locked up for a half hour at a time. Sending multiple jobs a day I could get a couple hours of reading done. I miss those days.
Dotty@jbwharris @joemoewin same! I worked at the printers and straddled graphic design into production, so add in bromide development and then the plates. And posted proofs. Looking back, gentler times, although it didn't always feel that way.
Savage Tempest@joemoewin Good point.
R. L. Dane 
This is why I love fountain pens. They slow me down.
Andrew Singleton@joemoewin Less Effeciantly huh?
James Edward@joemoewin What’s invisible here is that #Efficiency makes things cheaper, which makes things affordable that otherwise would not have been affordable. For example, we might lament job losses in the farming industry, but without mechanised farming, food would be a lot more expensive.
David RibesHmm. I think you are trying to say 'wow things have gotten so much faster even than that'.
But what if we read this comic to say, instead: people in 1995 talked like things were going super fast, and people in 2022 say the exact same things....
Maximilian Weiß@davidribes
I agree, this is the productivity growth slowdown since the mid-2000s. Maybe high market power firms that innovate less.
@joemoewin
I agree, this is the productivity growth slowdown since the mid-2000s. Maybe high market power firms that innovate less.
@joemoewin
@davidribes
Maarten De Ridder makes this claim: https://cepr.org/voxeu/columns/untouchable-firms-market-power-business-dynamism-and-productivity-growth-intangible
Untouchable firms: Market power, business dynamism, and productivity growth in the intangible economy
The slowdown of productivity growth, the decline of business dynamism, and the rise of market power and firm concentration are three trends that have attracted a lot of attention in academic and policy debates. This column points to the rising use of intangible inputs as a unified explanation for these trends. Firms with high intangible adoption disrupt sectors and initially boost productivity, but negatively affect the entry of new firms and suppress the effect of R&D on innovation and growth in the long run.
Claudio Zizza 🦜@joemoewin But didn't developers and devops invent processes that made technology less efficient?
CubicleNate@joemoewin So true... but I would argue that if you are going for the self-employed angle, there is MORE leisure time / time with family so there is that. Still, it's arguable.
Riley S. Faelan@joemoewin: FWIW, I do split my quick microwaveable food stash into '<= 5 min' and '> 5 min'.
Matt Smith 
@joemoewin oh how I loved the Calvin & Hobbes treasuries 🤗
@joemoewin No wonder Citroen is using "Enough" as a tagline. Greenwashing is the best way to get people to keep working even though they should be thinking "do I have what I need?"
Eff M@joemoewin Calvin and Hobbes almost always makes me laugh, even after all these years. Yet I still have to point out to Dad that the issue he's having here is not due to the efficiency of the technology but instead is a result of hypercapitalism.
Instead of the time being reduced to that required for the work, the work has been increased to match the time. The failure here isn't with the technology, it's with the overlords and their greed.
Derek Caelin is writing a book@joemoewin When I was a kid, I identified with Calvin. Now, as an adult with a six-year-old, I find myself becoming the dad in my values.
ZenithAstralis@derek @joemoewin ah yes, the original (or at least a predecessor to) the SpongeBob to Squidward pipeline.
AL@joemoewin so true
Clockwork ☃️✒️I'm in computational physics and our simulations are done through supercomputers. Thing is, they're mostly crowded and queues take days sometimes.
...as a result, our field of research is widely regarded as one of the most chill in physics 😁
You can work as fast as the tool you’re using allows!
J Cortade ⚡🚲@joemoewin I think it didn´t get old at all.
Brendan Merk@joemoewin There’s a non-zero percent chance that he would be watching Fox News and complaining that the vaccine has a microchip in it.
rumi@joemoewin gentoo users just want to seize the day
FFIBS@joemoewin
It seems like we are now entering the stage where one companies AI is buying from another’s AI. Next the Steve Jobs of AI will emerge and then everyone will have there own AI. #aiforall
It seems like we are now entering the stage where one companies AI is buying from another’s AI. Next the Steve Jobs of AI will emerge and then everyone will have there own AI. #aiforall
Anthony Baker@joemoewin it gets the kid correct still to this day
Derek 🌈@joemoewin I think that Calvin would have said something other than "faxes" today. However, yesterday I did use my fax machine for the first time at home for the mechanic I was working with. It was easier than email. Does anyone want my fax number? 🤣
Antonio Páez 🇲🇽🇨🇦
hapax@joemoewin so glad I'm not alone lol
OJBender@joemoewin how visionary and true. It’s all about expectations and lack of fault tolerance.
Yves L. Jardin-Noam@joemoewin as a software dev, we used to get unofficial breaks waiting for builds. Often long enough to get a coffee. I miss those.
