Computers, like automobiles and airplanes, do only what people tell them to do.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People don't understand computers. Computers are magical boxes that do things. People believe what computers tell them.
People assume that computers will do everything that humans do. Not good. People are different from each other and they are all really different from computers.
Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.
Technology doesn't address everything - for example, air travel still sucks.
For all their expertise at figuring out how things work, technical people are often painfully aware how much of human behavior is a mystery. People do things for unfathomable reasons. They are opaque even to themselves.
Computers are like Old Testament gods; lots of rules and no mercy.
I don't understand computers. I've been unable to construct a working mental model of how they do what they do. I can break software by looking at it. I can blow anything up. Without trying. It's sort of like being a dowser. And this extreme elaborate clumsiness on my part is actually something people will pay me for. It's quite wonderful.
Today, computers are almost second nature to most of us.
Some people think technology has the answers.
We have to make machines understand what they're doing, or they won't be able to come back and say, 'Why did you do that?'
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