If computers hadn't been invented yet, I would be inventing them!

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Nah, we would be using primitive tools like pens, paper, envelopes, and stamps

I built RC before "silicon"
Trust me , It ain't the same

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Yeh i now there not the same when you see an aircraft that you have built (only one) about to crash that feeling in your gut , is alot different than in a flight sim

life? wtf is a life??

We nowadays rely so much in computers that without them almost nothing functions. Have you often heard "we can't help you, our computer is down". Computers are so vulnerable that it will the cause of a disaster one of these days. What happens to the flight operations when the computer goes down at an airport? Here's one - what happens when your personal computer crashes? How about computer hackers? I've met college graduates who depended so much in their calculators (mini-computer) that they have been unable to do simple multiplication. I'm all for technology but we should have a means of standby just in case the computer crashes.

Hogans Alley

This is strictly my opinon.

If there werent computers:

1.Wars would last longer
2.Criminals would be harder to find
3.Commication would be a tad limited
4.Trade and business would encounter much trouble
5.It would be hard to determine the weather
6.Less pornography would be exposed to people/children
7.The FBI/CIA/NSA headquarters would be looted with paperwork instead of saving the files on computers.
8.The space program would be dead.
9.Kids would have a harder time finding information
10.Youd have to wait for the next day to find out if your fav team won a game
11.Planes would still be old-fashioned

Whoa, theres so much more but if i think of more my mind will pop. We depend on computers so much these days that one cant even imagine life without it. Like Hogans_Alley said; someday when it fails....we're headed towards the dark ages.

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Hmmm. I'm getting on a bit but never considered myself Victorian. I was a "baby boomer", born during WWII. I grew up in the 1950s & '60, one of the most exciting times you could imagine. Some of the greatest strides in aviation technology were accomplished during this period. Not a computer in sight. 

I have nothing against computers in principle. They are obviously valuable in business & other areas  I'm talking about the PC (Personal Computer) & what it's doing to our quality of life. Like all things, it's fine in moderation. Far too many people, particularly the younger generation, can't seem to live without them. I find this worrying & sometimes wonder where it will all end. What with online shopping, education, working from home & even virtual sex - almost anything you can think of is available from your PC. Taken to its logical conclusion, in a few years from now people could live in their own little virtual world & never need to step outside the front door.

What if there were no computers ?....you mean all computers ?....Like wrist watches, car controls, VCR-DVD-Stereos,....even my little computer radios for my planes ?......I guess I would just have to find a school gym and fly freeflight indoor rubber again......

If there were no computers, I would not be listening to my wife complain about how much time I spend playing Flight Sims, my dishes would be done, my living room cleaned, I would be keeping a better eye on my kids...

If I didn't have a computer I might have some real friends and maybe even a girlfriend