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#Software is notoriously "soft". It is really just digitally imprinted societal thinking. If you can think it, you can more or less code it (This is why in a rather gloomy and regressive landscape the relative success of #opensource is a rare beacon of hope).

But, on a somewhat longer timescale, computing #hardware is not particularly "hard" either. It is itself after all just coded imprints on #silicon. The actual shape of chips is very much a reflection of societal priorities and choices.
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