𝚜𝚑𝚊𝚍𝚎𝚊𝚛𝚐

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  • Would you kindly find a source for that?

    I can personally speak from the 80s, so that’s not exactly a golden age of reliable information. There was concern about scale of infinite growth and power requirements in a perpetual 24/7 full-load timeshare by people that were almost certainly not qualified to talk about the subject.

    I was never concerned enough to look into it, but I sure remember the FUD: “They are going to grow to the size of countries!” - “They are going to drink our oceans dry!” … Like I said, unqualified people.

    Another factor is that there aren’t that many supercomputers in the world, a handful of thousand of them.

    They never took off like the concerned feared. We don’t even concern ourselves with their existence.

    Edit: grammar