It's important to be informed about issues like usability, reliability, security, privacy, and some of the inherent limitations of computers.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
Personally, I tend to be more interested in security and performance-related issues than other things.
Privacy is one of the biggest problems in this new electronic age.
People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.
People in the industry foresee a time in which, for many people, the only thing they'll need on a computer is a browser.
We're entering a new world in which data may be more important than software.
There's no other major item most of us own that is as confusing, unpredictable and unreliable as our personal computers.
I just think there's a general interest in the world of computers.
I want to see us remain convinced that software matters in the future.
I write more for the children of the computer revolution, who are also interested in speculation and exploring the human condition, but approach it from an information perspective.
Computers have become more friendly, understandable, and lots of years and thought have been put into developing software to convince people that they want and need a computer.