> tietokone = knowledge machine (literally) = computer This is somewhat beside the point, but although in everyday speech "tieto" usually means knowledge in th

> tietokone = knowledge machine (literally) = computer This is somewhat beside the point, but although in everyday speech "tieto" usually means knowledge in the sense of knowing a fact or skill, it can also be taken as "information", which seems more likely to have been the original intent of the term. Nevertheless, pretty much every elementary computing course in Finnish begins by stating that "the computer doesn't actually know anything". :)