Wednesday, March 01, 2006
Computers are Easy
My daughter, 1.5 yrs, knows just what to do with them. Move the mouse, bang on the keyboard -- then yell and gesticulate at the monitor until it learns to obey voice commands and hand gestures.
She is a quick study, that one.
We all get frustrated with these humming boxes once in a while. They are not intelligent, they can only perform specific functions with defined parameters (at the lowest level, they are basically math engines). But they make us feel inadequate when they don't behave the way we think they should. ¶ 5:29 PM
My daughter, 1.5 yrs, knows just what to do with them. Move the mouse, bang on the keyboard -- then yell and gesticulate at the monitor until it learns to obey voice commands and hand gestures.
She is a quick study, that one.
We all get frustrated with these humming boxes once in a while. They are not intelligent, they can only perform specific functions with defined parameters (at the lowest level, they are basically math engines). But they make us feel inadequate when they don't behave the way we think they should. ¶ 5:29 PM