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~nargran

Agreed, too. Sadly, I don't think there's an easy way out of this situation. I do think one of the most important and often overlooked factors for a positive change is increased computer literacy among the population. Computer literacy as in "how to make your machine do what you want", not as in "how to select options in program/service X", which is what computer literacy seems to mean nowadays.

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~starbreaker wrote (thread):

I'm all for increasing real computer literacy, but I see two factors working against any meaningful effort to do so:

1. The powers that be don't want the average person to understand how to make computers work for them.

2. Most people probably never wanted to deal with computers in the first place, and are happy to leave such thankless work to people they despise as "geeks" and "nerds".

Of course, the problem with the second issue is that people who are content to be Eloi and leave the technical stuff to Morlocks tend to forget that Morlocks have their own word for Eloi: dinner.