Those who do learn from history are doomed to watch powerlessly as everyone around them regresses it.

... won't even notice the humans' extinction.

Ike was the last decent GOP President. However, we live in a Democracy, where evil dumb asses deserve representation.

1995: Phillip Morris->Smoking cigarettes doesn't cause cancer.
2021: Facebook->Using Facebook doesn't cause depression.


Best thing Steve Jobs said in a lifetime of saying pretty good things: Faecebook? You mean Faecebook?

And we're failing.

If you think he was fired for using LSD, you're deluded. The people who own the bulk of the company wanted to fire him. This was the excuse.

's 'cuz IBM already patented Microchannel Architecture in the PS/2 days. Innit?

Silly gweihir, facts do not matter to Trumpsters. Like all faith-based morons, they're making up ground in the spirit-world.

The Humpback and Bryde's whales will be very surprised to learn they've been doing it wrong.

I've got my money on "So long and thanks for all the fish!"

Republicans: Government will never work. Put me in charge and I'll prove it to you.

Texas Voters: Yee haw!

C++ was the best choice for a short while. Kinda like 8-track tapes before cassettes came out. I'd suggest that C++ is currently a poor choice for most uses today, basic agreement with Linus. I'd suggest the lasting value of C++ is because it's like the crappy 1st or 2nd version of the software you make and then finally you get to version 3 (Java) or 4 (C#) or 5 (Rust/Python) and it's pretty damn good. To get to the better stuff, the earlier crap attempts were necessary learning experiences.

As I read the OP, I thought it was mostly about which tasks/powers/judgements are we reluctant to hand off to a computer program, no matter how much the programmers have obfuscated the actual flow control.

The part about traceability made me laugh-snort.

Until self-driving cars are successfully mass-deployed, I'm not going to lose any sleep over Sky Net.

Once the AI knows the fool is broke (bank records, credit card records), will it stop presenting the fool with what the fool wants? Or are we all destined to become paperclips?

First, you fix your operations. Next you stop buying from suppliers that are not carbon neutral in their operations. One step at a time boy.