Yes "want" is involved but in a society where you are disadvantaged and
uncool etc to not compute, it's not the determining factor.
We can afford to pay for the oil or tire but few can afford to pay for a
driver.
Likewise with a computer. Few can afford secretaries but they can
afford to have someone fix their computer occasionally etc.
Computers became ubiquitous when their OS's became reasonably intuitive
/ graphic so that everyman could "drive" themselves.
Great leaps in intuitive design automatically are rewarded.
That's why I think apple ... a pretty good interface on top of truly
great computers ... is shooting itself in the foot by refusing to change
some faults in their design that most all professionals will acknowledge
exist ... and that would cause people to absolutely flock to their
products ... as they have for the iPod and iPhone.
db
mike wrote:
Faulty logic...we all know how to drive cars because we want to go places.
Not because they are all the same. By this logic everyone should know how
to change the oil or a tire...but they don't.
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 12:46 PM, db <db...@att.net> wrote:
Snyder, Mark - IdM (IS) wrote:
I think most kids will learn how to use both - at home and with friends,
not so important at school anymore. More important at school is
learning how, why they work. For too many people, computers are magic,
like cars. Therefore, when something behaves incorrectly, they have no
clue.
Do you know how to fix your car, the light switch in your house, how to do
therapy on your knee, make your own jewelry or wall art, grow your own
vegetables, raise your own chickens, file your own taxes, represent yourself
in court?
But everyone knows how to drive a car. Why? Because the controls ...
except for Minis ... are all essentially the same design that time and need
showed were more or less the most effective.
As should be with the world's long running stupid "shoot ourselves in the
foot" "Win vs. Mac's are better" contest.
The modern world is way to specialized for everyone to be an expert of
their universe ... a Renaissance Man.
Specialization requires specialists ... and that makes "magic" for the rest
of us. You just get to choose your specialty and your magic.
db
Thank you, Mark Snyder -----Original Message-----
I suspect this is like anything..why can't they learn both? There are
MUCH
larger problems with our eduction system than which OS to learn. I'd
much
rather have them at a very young age begin to learn other languages, a
more
broadly based education in general will help them in many areas.
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