The evolution of computers from glorified calculators to chatty know-it-alls who think they can write the next great American novel. Remember the 1970s? No? Well, lucky you. It was a time when computers were essentially oversized toasters with the processing power of a sleepy hamster. Their greatest achievement was adding numbers without catching fire, which, let's be honest, was a pretty low bar. It's like being proud of your teenager for remembering to wear pants to school – it's the bare minimum, folks! From Arithmetic to Artificial Intelligence - A Comedy of Computational Evolution Back then, if you told someone that in 2024 we'd have machines writing poetry, generating art, and giving relationship advice, they'd have assumed you were smoking something that definitely wasn't legal. The most exciting thing a computer could do in the '70s was calculate artillery trajectories, which is basically fancy math to figure out how to throw something really far....