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If a person from 1700 asked you your job, would they understand your answer, and if not, how would you explain it to them? (lemm.ee)

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[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (9 children)

My job is to digitize cassette tapes, VHS tapes, and other magnetic media.

So first I'd have to explain the miracle of how we managed to capture moving images and sounds onto these thin strips of plastic covered in rust. I'd follow that up by explaining how that technology is now considered quaint and out of date, and that these days we just get a thinking machine to remember that sort of thing for us.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 8 months ago (2 children)

First thing.... What is plastic?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 8 months ago (1 children)

generally an ordered gathering of monomers.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 8 months ago

Just as long as they don't to my house

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