First off, I'll explain my non-hypocracy by stating that geeks, including myself, are not human.
As far as people thinking before plugging something in, of course they don't. And it wouldn't matter if they did. People are scared of things they don't know.
int main { #conversation
"Yeah, I just got this thing and I'm so illiterate. I don't even know how to turn it on..."
"Well, there's this button right here that you pre-" (interupted)
"Yeah, I just got this thing and I don't know anything about it. I can't even turn it on..."
"Right. See, if you press that but-"
"I dunno. I've never used one of these things before. I'm illiterate."
"Here's your money back."
}
The ones who venture to click on things, even when breaking them, are the braver ones and the ones I like. Sure, they'll break a lot of stuff I have to fix, but they'll eventually learn. And they learn by experience, as opposed to learning from a teacher who either doesn't know jack and teaches stuff wrong, or someone who's brilliant as all hell but can't teach worth beans so he still gets it wrong.
No, the ones who click on things and break them are the smarter ones. Granted, they aren't that smart, but they're the smarter ones. The only one who are smarter than them are the ones who go out and buy a computer and screw that one up, instead of hte company machines! |
