Re: how about a simpler system
This is true. Of course us thirty-somethings would have assumed we would have a generation who understood everything about computers now - we grew up on the micros and early PCs, a time when you couldn't use a computer without an intimate knowledge of the internal workings. If you wanted something done, you'd likely have to throw together a little software yourself. We didn't anticipate the way in which software usability would advance to the point that anyone could operate it without the slightest idea of how anything actually works - and most people are perfectly happy with that. They want to use computers to achieve a goal, not as a goal in themselves.
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