12th May 2008, 12:43 AM
It's all well and good to philosophize but while you sit and think about it, real people with real lives are suffering. It doesn't seem like this concept is very "real" to you.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)