It's not tech. It's magic. People like magic.

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On Tue, Oct 13, 2020 at 2:28 PM Adam Moffett <dmmoff...@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd be inclined to shun almost any Internet enabled device.  Until proven
> otherwise, I'd assume all the software is a Jenga tower of Java libraries
> and code snippets copied off the Internet.
>
>
> On 10/13/2020 4:34 PM, Ken Hohhof wrote:
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> I just can’t figure out the people who profess to have no understanding or
> patience for technology, and get all frustrated if you use techie terms
> like “router” and “WiFi”, yet they have 25 Internet enabled devices in
> their house from coffee pots to picture frames to doorbells to game
> consoles and of course all sorts of streaming video devices, and the
> smartphones and tablets and smartwatches.
>
>
>
> I’m not talking about the 85 year olds who don’t want to look up stuff on
> Google and Wikipedia.  These are usually 30 year olds.  I want to ask them,
> if you don’t like technology, why do you buy so much of it?
>
>
>
> I assume the car industry went through the same thing, getting people who
> don’t know an engine from a transmission and barely know which hole to put
> the gas in, to buy cars and drive them.
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