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¿Question #229690?
PolarDad: How dependent is your job on computers? Could you do it if no computers worked today?

imyourskribe: My job _is_ computers. So no.
pwilz: Before the advent of computers, it was theorized that with a town of about 10,000 all working at desks in a large building where they could communicate with their neighbors who were all solving the same series of differential equations, just on a different part of the domain.
mattomaw: Not at all.
Grimsalt: Computers have been so poorly implemented in the Canadian healthcare system that they near double the paperwork for nurses, social workers and the like.
MABBY: Computers make it much much easier to track inventory but if you counted everything individually then you'd still get the same results. I could do my job without a computer but I would need a phone, possibly a fax machine, and a typewriter would be nice.
Woelf: 99% -- There's very little I can do at work without a computer, and even the things that can be done without directly using a computer still require things from a computer, like print-outs or other paperwork. I could go back to drafting everything by hand, which I did enjoy but haven't done with any regularity in decades.
pricero1: I can't possibly be a retiree without my computer.