Reply #22: you answered the question yourself

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if you will re-read your post.

Now here is my answer. Part one-there is no way of knowing.

Part Two- It is possible we would be better off without computers in a different world created by different modalities, less formalized, less organized.

Part Three- It is easy to imagine that the computer would/could come about without compulsory government schooling.

Who use the most resources in the world and thusly creae the most damage? By and large "the highly educated".

How about all those brainy scientists doing their thing in Biotech? Who would you rather rely on for your sustenance these bioengineers from the Ivy League or uneducated Vietnamese farmers?

Our definition of what an education is is completely distorted.