Skynet becomes self aware. From T2:
"The system goes on-line August 4th, 1997. Human decisions are removed from strategic defense. Skynet begins to learn at a geometric rate. It becomes self-aware at 2:14 a.m. Eastern time, August 29th."
Word is just a bloated wordpad, and that's how people use it - to write text with paragraphs and justifications (recently wordpad supports docx). Excel is just a bloated csv viewer, that's how people use it - to make tables with text in them, notably price lists. My company is an ms shop and uses ms office offline and google docs for collaboration. First time I hear that ms office can into collaboration beyond sharepoint.
It's network effect. People use ms office not because they need its features, but because they receive ms office documents.
We converted some our docs from docx to markdown. The twist is that markdown supports tables, so it can replace both Word and Excel. Then I guess gitlab renders it. Literally markdown. It's stored in git, supports diffs, version history, collaboration is done with merge requests.
What was possible in Flash in 2005 in IE6 on a Duron processor with 32MB RAM is possible today in a gargantuan bloatware browser that eats all your hardware.
Did it? I thought Skynet was a defense system trained to see humans as enemies, it just worked by design, like HAL 9000. Screamers became self-aware.
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