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> the whole concept seems to be so far outside of most people's frame of reference What? Are you living in the same world as me? Pretty much every industry ap
by world32 8y ago
> the whole concept seems to be so far outside of most people's frame of reference
What? Are you living in the same world as me?
Pretty much every industry apart from manual labour or craftsmanship related work uses software. If you work in an office chances you spend most of your time using software.
Then people go home and play on their smartphones which connect to back-end API servers developed by software engineers or stream films of netflix, also developed by software engineers.
- Supernaut 8y agoYou completely missed my point. I wasn't suggesting that the average person doesn't utilise software on a day to day basis. I was agreeing with the author of the post above mine, who pointed out that to most people, "any kind of computing device is a black box built on magic". They have absolutely no idea how their devices work, and neither do they care to find out.
- interfixus 8y agoThe author of the post above yours absolutely concur. Everybody uses software. Few have even a basic conception of how it works.