MyTakeOnTech

Brunch at Manny’s Snack Shack sparked a fun AI daydream: digital menus, smart lamps, and mood playlists. Tech could streamline service, but it can’t replace the café’s vintage charm and familiar chatter. Still, the blueberry pancakes? Absolutely worth it.

Communicating with machines used to be nearly impossible. Early computers were mechanical and didn’t understand words — every command had to be given through switches, levers, or punched cards. Later, electronic machines spoke only in binary, streams of zeroes and ones that required deep technical knowledge to interpret. It felt like decoding an alien language By the 1990s, we were learning programming languages like C. In the 2000s, Java became the go-to, and today, Python m