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> even without basic understanding of how stuff works. That's fantastic! That's the ideal scenario, for all technology: a useful tool. There's a good chance y
by nomel 2y ago
> even without basic understanding of how stuff works.
That's fantastic! That's the ideal scenario, for all technology: a useful tool.
There's a good chance you don't understand how your computer works either. The quantum physics that makes your SD card work, the startup sequence for the PCIE devices in your computer, the wrap around gate's used in your CPU, how the doping materials are mined, how the combine is constructed that was used to make the bread on your sandwich, etc.
That's great, and such a relief. You don't have to waste your time on carrying around all that knowledge that took mankind billions of man hours to accumulate. You can just get personally interesting shit done, and use your sandwich at lunchtime without a license.
- SunlitCat 2y agoI totally agree, technology should be a useful tool. But! As more sophisticated a tool becomes, the more care one has to use it. I don't need to understand the inner technical details of my computer, that's true. But I need to understand that connecting to a world wide network can open up a can of worms not only harming me but others along the way as well.
- nomel 2y agoSure, but at some point, the emergent behavior, like having to worry about your computer being infected, has nothing to do with the actual technology under it, and more about fundamentals of complex systems, and game theory.