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To: ftth who wrote (5495)	10/7/1999 1:10:00 AM
From: elmatador	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 12823

Good post, Dave. Let us do some thinking: Do you remember that in the past to drive a car you would need to know a lot about mechanics to twinkle with it since it was breaking down all the time? Nowadays cars don't breakdown. You don't need to know about what is under the hood. Just fuel it up, every 15.000Km give some service and you can jump and just have fun or work with it. Ask the average driver how a shock absorber work. If we ask about direct fuel injection (vs Carburator) technologies for cars how many % of the interviewed would understand? If we would ask about ABS technology how many %? and so it goes. People just understand that 140HP is a more powerfull engine than a 105HP one. Or that air bag improves the possibility that you come out with less serious hurt than with safety belt only. When I go to the US I ask if I can rent a manual car, they say they don't rent those. I think in the future there will be no peole who would know how to change gears anymore. Which is not a negative fact. It is good. I don't know how to milk a cow. But my father did. He needed to. My daughter would never have to learn how to type in an Olivetti or Remington. Why should the user have to learn all that stuff you -mention- to use the technologies? (I am not saying you are wrong to have spotted them and brought the subject up) I don't think they should. The industry have gone a long way isolating the user from the complexities of the underlying technologies. It must go this way much further. How many "...for dummies" books would be necessary to home-network a PC and a MAC, design a home page, understand a little Java, etc? My wife have quite a few.