The Mechanic Analogy
Some of the reading is quite funny when it gets to nuts and bolts, but when it all boils down to it, it is very similar to a mechanic that drives a junker around. He knows how to fix it, has the spare parts on the shelf and has all the tools to take care of it.
We fall under the same mythconception with computers. Because we know what is going on under the hood and like to tinker around with stuff, it's easy to assume that other people know more than they do, or to take for granted what we are doing to the machine since we are the ones bending it out of shape.
How many of us drive a Junker of a vehicle because we want to go home and work on it after fixing other problems all day? I for one don't, and prefer that I take it to a mechanic to fix anything that ails my vehicle. Most other people feel the same way about computers. They just want it to do what it's supposed to do without much interference.
Since we operate under the same principle (in principle) in other sphere's of our lives, why do we get so wrapped up about other people using the same principle on computer related devices?
Maybe we should take a step back, take a deep breath and just enjoy where technology has taken us up to this point before sticking our noses back to the grindstone.
