23rd September 2017, 8:23 AM
I mean, it's certainly true that in 2027 we'll look back on this as the "stupid ages", just like we look back on the 90's as "that time we all thought we were progressive but still were pretty painfully ignorant of a lot of stuff".
"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)