Fraser Speirs - Blog - Future Shock →
fraser’s blog post is about the ipad. so, sorry for that, but i think the underlying discussion about “technologists = wizards” is one of the most interesting trends to emerge from modern computing.
fraser writes:
Secretly, I suspect, we technologists quite liked the idea that Normals would be dependent on us for our technological shamanism. Those incantations that only we can perform to heal their computers, those oracular proclamations that we make over the future and the blessings we bestow on purchasing choices.
and goes from there to the really interesting observation:
I’m often saddened by the infantilising effect of high technology on adults. From being in control of their world, they’re thrust back to a childish, mediaeval world in which gremlins appear to torment them and disappear at will and against which magic, spells, and the local witch doctor are their only refuges.
read it.
