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The Contrast In 60 years, NASA went from mechanical slide rules to digital enabled autonomous spacecraft while the U.S. electrical grid still relies on mechanical infrastructure that predates the pocket calculator.
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Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2026
Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026
Machines have been solving mathematical problems for decades going back to the pocket calculator.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Up until the 2000s, Japan teemed with engineering pioneers: Casio invented the pocket calculator; Seiko the quartz wristwatch; Fujifilm the first digital camera.
—Time, 13 Nov. 2023
No arithmetical genius can compete with a pocket calculator.
—Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
Your pocket calculator can calculate numbers better than most people.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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Anna Demeo, Forbes.com, 11 Apr. 2026
Consider the simple case of multiplying two numbers on a pocket calculator.
—Ben Brubaker, Quanta Magazine, 17 Feb. 2026
Machines have been solving mathematical problems for decades going back to the pocket calculator.
—Christiaan Hetzner, Fortune, 23 Nov. 2023
Much as the pocket calculator long ago caused arithmetic skills to atrophy, newer technologies have made history ubiquitous instead of chronological, let alone explanatory.
—Thomas Mallon, The New Yorker, 20 Nov. 2023
Up until the 2000s, Japan teemed with engineering pioneers: Casio invented the pocket calculator; Seiko the quartz wristwatch; Fujifilm the first digital camera.
—Time, 13 Nov. 2023
No arithmetical genius can compete with a pocket calculator.
—Stephen Marche, The Atlantic, 15 Sep. 2022
Your pocket calculator can calculate numbers better than most people.
—Foreign Affairs, 15 Oct. 2013
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“Pocket calculator.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/pocket%20calculator. Accessed 3 May. 2026.
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