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Ask HN: What would you have been if there were no computers
6 points by combiclickwise on Oct 10, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 19 comments


The inventor of the computer.


Well, I'd probably see better and be a lot healthier.

But I imagine I'd be a blood spatter analyst and vigilante serial killer, of course.


lol

we would have crossed paths then as I would be the world's only consulting detective.


Electrical engineer. Probably something involving radio since I focused on Communications when getting my EE degree. After college I went to work for a company that made industrial computer I/O interfaces and then got into embedded programming instead.


Musician. Soometimes, while playing guitar, i wish i would not own a computer, because i'm sure my guitarplaying would be so much better... then i snap back to the real world and am happy as fuck that the computer pays my food.


I guess it depends on what you'd consider a "computer", but I'd probably be into radio engineering and electronics, what I was into as a kid, before home computers were around.

Sometimes, I still feel like I want to go back to it.


Musician still is my main ambition, web development is just a means to an end for me.

If I didn't have web development, I'm pretty sure I'd be a mechanic, I love working on cars :)


I was actually going to be an animator before I picked up "Transcending CSS" by Andy Clarke at the uni library.


Just a journalist instead of a journalist with interactive/multimedia/sysadmin skills


A lighting designer for theater. (I nearly was, despite the existence of computers)


An oil on canvas painter...painting landscapes...


A trauma surgeon.


A pianist or a painter. And probably broke.


A mathematician


Ordered by probability:

0. Computer Scientist

----- Other variants -----

1. Mechanical Engineer

2. Mathematician

3. Musician

4. Chemist


A ceramicist.


A linguist.


Scarily, I have often wondered this and have no idea. I fear I might have become an accountant, and probably a bad one at that.


A pirate.




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