Monday, September 14, 2015

Mice

Around 40 years ago, long before many users or programmers now, were born, some far thinking geeks created the Mouse, realizing that the average person would not understand or want to spend there days learning and typing commands into what was turning into the Personal Computer.

Thus started the world of Point and Click, where even the beginner could easily make their way in the digital world, or so the dream went.
Reality unfortunately is not often the same as the dream. As anyone who tries to start a blog will rapidly find out.

In the world of point and click, blogs are like going back in time to the days when people chiseled symbols on to stone tablets. Even a beginner is expected to spend their days opening one window after another to type in commands that only a geek can comprehend, in a vein effort to communicate their thoughts to the rest of the world.

This problem is still rampant for the simple reason that Programmers still live in a world of keyboard commands and lines of typed code, and like many experts, they often don't realize that other people do not share their knowledge, or expertise, and in fact often don't even consider it an option.

You could liken it to an artist who expects gallery patrons to know how to paint, before they could look at or buy his work.

Tho consumers have literally screamed for decades about this, programmers often remain unconcerned or indifferent. Probably because like users, the technology advances so fast that even they are running to catch up.

So the next time you get the urge to toss your machine across the room, or beat a geek to death with a nail studded mouse, keep in mind that your world looks just as scary to them.... KRASH


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