its because the people who are making these programs don't actually have an understanding of technology (just like technologists don't, as a general rule, under

its because the people who are making these programs don't actually have an understanding of technology (just like technologists don't, as a general rule, understand education). These folks so that successful people are using computers and think that using computers is the goal, not just a handy tool for doing stuff that we're slow at really fast. To quote Dijkstra, "Computer science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes"