The Dark Side of the Spreadsheet - spxbot blog

Visicalc was the first spreadsheet, 20 rows by 5 column (!) by Dan Bricklin with Bob Frankston. The tools that makes the world go around… You have a world before 1978 and a world after 1978. And the world after 1978 has transposed in the spreadsheet programs (now thousands of rows by thousands of columns, and in the cloud!) what they were used to do by hand. Neural networks (the logical and computational engines of AI systems) are not so different from a spreadsheet. In effect, they are spreadsheets!