Computers, eh. They'll never catch on, you know.
I very much doubt it
. We'll clearly have to evolve a bit more before we can work out how to use them.
Grump List
(1) Why is it that new(ish) innovations have to go through a stage, which I always manage to hit, when they involve dozens of wires and potentially incompatible plugs and sockets? It's happened all through my life. The introduction of stereo with wires dangling across the mantlepiece, hi-fi separate units, tape recorders manically unreeling across the floor the moment you turn your back on them, TV 'remote' controls attached by a cable (remember those?), large aerials strapped to your head for mobile phones, printers that can't be stopped once they have started churning out the whole of War and Peace other than by destroying them with an axe (and even then they could reassemble themslves and carry on printing - one symbol per page) and now thousands of different coloured cables for broadband. How come my children get it easy and swan in just when all the teething problems and wiring lunacy has been sorted out by an exhausted older generation.
(2) Who was it that arranged it so that it was nerds rather than normal people who were the only ones around to create the language of all future computer-speak? For biology we had Linnaeus, for medicine we had Paracelsus, for physics we had Newton, Boyle and Gauss. For computers we got youths called Dave.
(3) Why am I trying to obey this anonymous order: "You must install 'Uninstall' and disable 'Install' default before attempting to uninstall" rather than gambolling among the daffodils and the lambs in the spring sunshine, buoyed up by the thought that 'gambol' is an anagram of 'Go, lamb!'.
Ah well. I must remember that I am an Investor in People and Embrace Change. Back under the desk again with about fifty different coloured 'Ethernet' cables and a mirror on a stick.
