As the popularity and extensive use of the internet spreads out even more from the prototypical computer geek bunch, this effect will only increase. This is because people who did not grow up staring at a CRT, and feel threatened by, and mistrustful of, computers, are being reuired to use it. There is generally the sentiment by the average technophobe these days, and even people like my father who rely on computers to make their living, that something isn't real until they have hardcopy of it. This will go away over time as the generations of pre-computer-era people are slowly phased out (read that as a nice way of saying die off), but until that point I expect it to only get worse.
And not to be marked as flamebait right away, but does anyone but me miss the days when a linux user inherently was a programmer?
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I'd just like to say it would be almost impossible for me to agree more.
As the popularity and extensive use of the internet spreads out even more from the prototypical computer geek bunch, this effect will only increase. This is because people who did not grow up staring at a CRT, and feel threatened by, and mistrustful of, computers, are being reuired to use it. There is generally the sentiment by the average technophobe these days, and even people like my father who rely on computers to make their living, that something isn't real until they have hardcopy of it. This will go away over time as the generations of pre-computer-era people are slowly phased out (read that as a nice way of saying die off), but until that point I expect it to only get worse.
And not to be marked as flamebait right away, but does anyone but me miss the days when a linux user inherently was a programmer?
try http://www.wired.com/news/n ews/culture/story/18675.html instead :)