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Most people who drive a car have no idea how an engine works. I know and agree it's a scary future, but I wonder if it's really _essential_ to understand things
by Droobfest 23d ago
Most people who drive a car have no idea how an engine works. I know and agree it's a scary future, but I wonder if it's really _essential_ to understand things on a deeper level.
Most people are quite capable of understanding higher-order ideas without fully grasping the underlying details too.
- SirYandi 23d agoIt is essential that _someone_ knows how that car works.
- scott_weber 22d agoMaybe less than we might hope. Not only is the knowledge distributed over the hundreds of people involved in designing a car, there may be conventions/habits of design and manufacture whose purpose has become hazy but are nevertheless important, or details of a design iterated upon whose original motivation is less understood.