Hating on apple is a pet peeve of mine, but when the iPhone went out with it's locked down it just works appstore I knew we were in a watershed moment - around

Hating on apple is a pet peeve of mine, but when the iPhone went out with it's locked down it just works appstore I knew we were in a watershed moment - around that time people just stopped being interested in how stuff works and everything was replaced by techo shamanism - with the few of us still knowing how to troubleshoot something being viewed as shamans. The idea that people could dig deep and get our knowlege (and the motivation to do so) just went out. We see this in cars - the check engine light is the most disgusting thing ever invented - you have so many displays, you could put directly the real error and let me know what it is. But no - we have to go the techo shamans to do their job. We move from not knowing things to unknowable - the idea that the knowlege is unobtainable. And that is bad.