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See for yourself, in 10 seconds.
Can you fly a plane?
Software, to normal people, looks like the
picture above.
You're a bright person, but you probably can't fly that plane any
time soon. What do all those controls do, what do their labels mean,
how do they go together, which do you need to use and when, how do
you use them, what feedback do you look for, what happens if you hit
the wrong thing,...?
Even if shown how to do something basic, like drive it up and
down the runway, would you remember it all the next day? If you'd got
one bit of the entire sequence wrong, and the plane wasn't moving, how
would you know what to do? If a new light started flashing, what would
you do then?
Take a look at your PC screen, and imagine you're not a
"computer pilot", i.e. that you don't understand what almost any
of those dozens and dozens of buttons and words mean, or how they fit
together, or which you need and when, or what happens if you hit the
wrong thing, or... ...Now you're seeing what normal people see, on
their PC screens.
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