In short, the jelly-ware doesnt know how to talk to the hardware.
When the hardware talks to the jelly-ware, it is necessary for the jelly-ware to be able to read what the hardware and software have so laboriously translated out of the machine language into the written word. Many people cant read. Its also necessary for the jelly-ware to be able to understand what they read. Another alarming statistic.
On a recent airline trip, the young lady sitting next to me spent the whole three-hour flight studying a text and workbook on retail business practices. The book was telling her how to fill out a sales slip. She was laboriously doing this in the workbook. She would have been better prepared for a retail business job if shed been learning how to add a column of four-digit numbers rapidly in her head.
All of this bodes ill for our culture in the future.
Although Arthur Clarke has written that we are processing pell-mell into a computerized service culture, I dont think Arthur has realized that were faced with an enormous problem at the human/machine interface.
Thats the crucial point of the problem. And the computer designers and engineers had better get on the stick and do something about it, or the market for computers is slowly going to become saturated because of the large number of people who are computer illiterate.
What to do? If the interface is the problem, the thing to do is to transfer some of the creative energy of the hardware/software designers away from making the hardware bigger and faster and into the area of making the interface easier for people. Human beings are basically members of a visual and verbal species. We have to learn how to operate machines through the eye-brain-hand system, and some people never catch on.
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