[CLUE-Talk] Just a Philosophy

[jbrockmeier at earthlink.net]

On Sat, 20 Apr 2002, Jed S. Baer wrote:

*snip*

> The few who do understand it just shrug. They're not interested in doing
> anything about it. I guess their computer isn't a big enough part of their
> lives? Or, it's just an appliance. It's like, if Ford did something
> anti-competitive, would they sell their car? Nope, not worth the trouble.
> For the ones who don't already understand, they have no interest - again,
> the computer is just an appliance.

I think that eventually part of the functions we depend on PCs for will
become functions of appliances rather than full-blown PCs. I wish that
we were there now, actually - there's a big difference between what I
use a computer for and what a large percentage of the population uses
computers for. I think it will be at least another five to ten years
before this comes to pass, however.   

But, the personal computer functionality is quite important. The question
is, how to convince the average person of that? Can we convince people
that this is important, before it reaches a real crisis, or is it hopeless?
 
> Here's an example. The other night, a friend was asking me how to get
> Acrobat to open PDFs on the internet. I asked all the usuall questions,
> and he really didn't distinguish between AOL and Google. Also, still
> running '95 with the MSIE "upgrade".

Yeek. Doesn't that just make you twitch? 

Take care, 

Zonker
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