Comment on Learned Blankness

Tue, 19 Apr 2011 13:39:20 GMT

Experience certainly seems relevant.

This is something I've been pondering for a while and never been able to explain to my satisfaction.

I think society sets up the wrong expectations for interacting with computers. I see two categories of things - "people things", and "nature things".

People things would be stuff like paper forms, or communication skills, or shopping.

Nature things would be stuff like a garden (thanks to efm on irc!), or physics.

Computing has a bit of the characteristics of both, but needs to be treated more like a nature thing. Whereas it's often actually treated like a people thing.

I'm just kinda musing here, I don't have any explanation of this I'm happy with.

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