Good day and welcome to Ancient Wisdom. As impressive as our modern technology might be, able to handle even such complex tasks as making toast, there is still no substitute for the lost arts of wizards. Take soothsaying, for example. The best a computer can do is estimate the accuracy of a prediction by expressing it in mathematical odds. But a real professional seer could predict the future with absolute certainty. All the great men from ancient times had such a consultant. Hannibal wouldn't mount his elephant until he checked with his seer. Those were the days. When death and destruction were on the way, we damn well knew about it and didn't waste all our time arguing. We got busy and started looting. But today our dependence on technology has deprived us of this advantage.
This poses a compelling question. Is modern technology helping us or merely blinding us to our doom? For Ancient Wisdom, I'm Morty Shaw.
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