Comment on It must have been a whole lot more difficult to design and build tall buildings before computers existed

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Rhynoplaz@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

I don’t know, I think more difficult is accurate.

Look at any major building project from a hundred years ago. How many man hours would it take from concept to completion? A similar project today could probably be finished in less than a quarter of the time with half as many people. Sure, they are doing it differently, but the tools make it easier so we can make more of them faster.

Referring back to your example, today’s cars were impossible to make then because making a basic car was too damn hard to begin with, once that task got easier, they could focus on making slightly more difficult ones.

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