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The Biggest Roadblocks To Information Technology Development
ZDOne writes "ZDNet UK has put together a list of some of the biggest obstacles preventing information technology from achieving its true potential, in terms of development and progress. Microsoft's stranglehold on the desktop makes the list, as does the chip-makers' obsession with speed. 'There is more to computing than processor speed -- a point which can be easily proven by comparing a two-year-old PC running Linux with a new PC buckling under the weight of Vista. Shrinking the manufacturing process to enable greater speed has proven essential, but it's running out of magic ... What about smarter ways of tagging data? The semantic web initiative runs along these sorts of lines, so where is the hardware-based equivalent?'"
Think how much more productive an IT worker could be if the software tools didn't require them to learn a bunch of skills which are irrelevant to their job. Back when cars had chokes and manually adjusted spark advance, you would have been claiming how important it was for drivers to get 'basic understanding' of these things. But of course the real answer was to completely hide these details from drivers so that today they have no idea what it even means to choke an engine or advance a spark. Yes, ignorance is a problem. But it's not the users who are ignorant. It's those of us who develop and maintain the IT systems who are ignorantly blaming the users for our own failings.