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How is it that a computer system developed nearly half a century ago appears to be smarter than the collective intelligence of mankind?
Since the writing has been so clearly on the wall for so very long, why is it that we've done nothing (effective) to mitigate the issues that were predicted and we now face?
Was this computer's prediction spookily accurate?
Are we about to see the destruction of modern civilization by way of environmental changes that were clear to even the most primative of computers some half a century ago?