19 Jun
2004
19 Jun
'04
9:28 a.m.
This is a
separate issue, but it worries me too. Just about everyone
these days hasn't a clue as to how anything actually works :-(.
-tony
Welcome to large scale integration, most cards have one main chip in them
anymore and nothing else. Input goes in one side, "magic happens", then you
get your output. You don't have to know much about
a complex car to drive
one (gas goes in here, oil in there, that's about it), why should computing
This may partially explain the lethal driving I see around here :-(...
It propably won't suprise you that although I don't drive, I have no
problem repairing cars (old or modern). They're not that complicated.
Heck, I'll have a go at repairing _anything_...
be different to the vast majority of computer users.
It's the absolute, not relative number that bothers me. What I mean is
that <n> years ago (for large n) there were A clueful users and B
clueless ones (with B being fairly small). Now there are C clueful users
and D cluelss ones. I think everyone agrees that D is larger than B (the
number of non-knowledgeable users has certainly gone up). But IMHO C is
less than A -- the number of clueful users has actually gone down in
absolute terms.
There is of course the other issue that anyone who uses something without
properly understanding it is liable to make a right fool of themselves or
worse....
-tony