I don't agree at all. The point was that software has changed the world the most in the last some-odd amount of years, more so than any other discipline, and I don't really understand your counterpoints - there's always been multiple food products in every home, that is actually a demonstration of how little agriculture impacts our lives. It's a mainstay.
And climate science is once again really not impacting our lives - it should be, we should all be making sweeping changes to our behaviors and requiring massive corporate overhauls & pricing in costs of disposal & cleanup - but it's not, because no one cares, and no organization with real teeth bites you for that.
Software, though, it doesn't matter what you do, it will find a way to impact you & what you've done, and if you have non cognizance of that someone else will probably eat your lunch eventually. It's obvious how climate science doesn't have the same level of import wrt every aspect of our lives [note I'm not saying this makes sense, and I would argue climate science is the most important thing, but someone saying "pollute less" isn't more credible for it].
Far be it from me to understate the importance of software, but I think that the notion of “always” having food products is (a) not true for most people in most places throughout most of history and (b) not a compelling counterargument. Food is not like oxygen, the abundance of which is all but guaranteed.
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I don't agree at all. The point was that software has changed the world the most in the last some-odd amount of years, more so than any other discipline, and I don't really understand your counterpoints - there's always been multiple food products in every home, that is actually a demonstration of how little agriculture impacts our lives. It's a mainstay.
And climate science is once again really not impacting our lives - it should be, we should all be making sweeping changes to our behaviors and requiring massive corporate overhauls & pricing in costs of disposal & cleanup - but it's not, because no one cares, and no organization with real teeth bites you for that.
Software, though, it doesn't matter what you do, it will find a way to impact you & what you've done, and if you have non cognizance of that someone else will probably eat your lunch eventually. It's obvious how climate science doesn't have the same level of import wrt every aspect of our lives [note I'm not saying this makes sense, and I would argue climate science is the most important thing, but someone saying "pollute less" isn't more credible for it].
Far be it from me to understate the importance of software, but I think that the notion of “always” having food products is (a) not true for most people in most places throughout most of history and (b) not a compelling counterargument. Food is not like oxygen, the abundance of which is all but guaranteed.