TECHNOLOGICAL HUBRIS

A surgeon, astronomer and programmer sat down for tea and a fierce arg ument arose over whose was the oldest profession. The programmer claim ed that Ada Lovelace was the first programmer. Then the astronomer tra ced astronomical observation right back to the ancient Babylonians. Th e surgeon claimed his was clearly the oldest profession since removing Adam's rib to make Eve was surgery. Challenged like this, the astrono mer claimed that her profession was oldest, since before that, God had made the universe out of chaos. The programmer said: 'And who do you think created the chaos?'