"Computers aren't the thing. They are the thing that gets us to the thing."

-- Joseph McMillan, quoting Gordon Clark

A quote of a quote?

@Krokoklemme of a quote.

HCF was so beautiful. Never was I touched so deep inside by a TV show before. Those quotes still get me everytime. So, thank you for this one :)

@offworld same here :) I'm watching all the series again. There's something about hcf that keeps me thinking about it. Maybe the visionary. Maybe the fact that we take it all for granted without stopping to think how we got all of this. Maybe smth else...

It's great

@netikras likewise I think to me it is the romantic view on those days long gone where computers and software actually were a lot less complex, kind of special and there was so much to explore still. when humans were in control of computers and software and not the other way around, as nowadays is the case with them controlling our lifes. when they were used with much more awareness and their main potential being leveraged to fly us to the moon or spreading joy through well-thought games with a plot instead of creating mass surveillance machinery, privacy-intruding social networks and emotion-less candy crush smombies. Of course, I am a little exaggerating, you get the point.

Besides all that, I Even more value the lesson they’re teaching - that in the end, life is about the people you meet. you change constantly, wasting time on earthly things falsely thinking they’re important, but happen to be the same person in the end, just a lot wiser, realizing: love is what counts. connecting you forever, overcoming large distances, beyond death even, finding immortality through the memories you created in the people you loved and who loved you.