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Tim Bowden wrote:
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<pre wrap="">Those are the people sick of striving to be mediocre.
Do we show them the wide *open* spaces that offer freedom of choice
or do we move them from their existing cage into one that's got the
furniture re-arranged?
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Re-arrange the furniture. Sad to say, most people aren't interested in
exploring the vistas of freedom. They /want/ to be led by the nose.
Press button A, Fill in form B etc without knowing /why/ they need to do
things the way they do. If something goes wrong, they stop till someone
sorts it out. They're not interested in having a solid conceptual
understanding of why they are doing things the way they are. So long as
they are comfortable with the the quality of leadership (rightly or
wrongly), by and large they will go where they are lead. If this sounds
a little depressing, it's because my experience is that the majority of
people think this way (well strictly speaking, are this way because they
don't think critically). Those that do have an enquiring mind are in
the minority.
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Yes but a lot people think of computers as nothing but tools. We
shouldn't think or believe that people want to know how a computer
works. Compare it to your car.<br>
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You fill it up once a week, probably don't even check the tyres, let
alone the oil. Take it to a mechanic maybe once a year for a tune up
and oil change. You don't want to know how the starter motor works, or
the theory of the 4 stroke engine, how the gear box or transmissions
works. It is just a tool to get you from a to b. So it is with a
computer. It is just a tool to get information from a to b.<br>
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So if it doesn't work, you call the RAC.<br>
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Alex<br>
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