From 'What is a computer?' to 'What is a human?': an 80-year timeline in one tweet
vedantmisra · x · 2026-09-05
A viral quip traces humanity's relationship with computers across decades: the 1940s asked "What is a computer?", the 1960s found them weird, the 1980s fun, the 2000s useful, and the 2020s now marvel that computers are so intelligent — predicting that by the 2040s we'll be asking "What is a human?" A minimalist meme capturing anxieties about AI progress reshaping human identity.
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