Boanne wrote:
>What I don't understand is where this fear of computers comes from, they
are just >machines. There are all kinds of machines in our lives all the
time, every day. If >you think about it people should be much more afraid
of their cars than computers.
Yes, I've just recently got my mother to not be afraid of the mouse (but
since then there aren't any diffrence in clicking and double-clicking in
Wind 3.x on that computer). I agree with you that people should be more
afraid of other things, but it might also be a generation problem. (Oh boy
am I gonna get flamed for this one!). Older people (as yourself) have in
general a much harder time to learn new technical things. But that is
understandable since todays kids (and yesterdays as myself) grow (or grew)
up with all these electronic gadgets around them and was never taught to be
carefull with them as people where before.
People where afraid of cars when they first came, and the PC isn't that
old, but wait 10-20 years and you'll see a diffrence. Until that day we'll
have to live with the fact that many people are *very* afraid of computers.
(A green creatue that answeres "You will be!" when someone says "I'm not
afraid!" comes to mind, but that might be because I know this summer is
going to be the worst ever - 80 days to go! I'll stop wining now.)
>How many people have you ever heard of who were killed in a computer
accident? <grin>
I guess someone has got killed, for instance when the guy at the 10th floor
or so throws his computer out the window and someone get it hit in his head?
Luckily I've only destroyed a keyboard out of frsutration of M$ (but it
makes me sad since it was a REAL keyboard and not this M$ shit they try to
sell us these days!)
//Bernie
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