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> you must think in graphs. That is possible in 1996, but not as widespread as today.

Could you elaborate? I'm a very graph-oriented thinker, and I was never aware this was some kind of declining skill (For context I was not alive in '96).

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I think you're misreading it (I did the first time as well). GP is saying "graph thinking" was not as common in 1996 as it is today, so is saying the opposite of it being a declining skill.

Ah, yeah, that'd do it.

Plus a lot of the advanced graph-related algorithms were discovered by the 80s.

Yeah, this was all done in Bell Labs starting in the 1960s

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