• Optional@lemmy.world
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      18 hours ago

      Sure, sure and it’s interesting stuff. But not anywhere near useful in the sense people mean when they talk about computers.

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        15 hours ago

        They are as useful as the Large Hadron Collider, or the New Horizons probe.

        They are instruments of practical scientific research. They may have some return in useful technology or not, but science is always worth it.