BUZZ, BUZZ...
Snooooze...
BUZZ, BUZZ.
Hot steaming water,
a cup of coffee,
and you're in your chariot
headed toward eight hours of work.
Back home to dinner,
the boob tube,
and bed.
Do this 26,000 times and your dead.
Note:Not from boredom, that's just the average lifespan. As babies, we learned about the world by putting objects in our mouths, tasting the defining edges. After about 6,000 repetitions, we tasted enough reality to effectively manipulate it.
Alarm clocks have buttons, showers have knobs, and cars have steering wheels. The world around us has an interface. So do computers. We use the computer's interface to translate our desires into a machine language the TV comprehends when it's our desire to mute a show.
Some mad scientists can understand the ones and zeros a computer knows best. An elite few memorize 'chmod755/glop/' to tell a Unix machine something useful. More people know what to do when faced with a C: prompt. And most of us can manipulate a mouse to get work done with the graphical user interfaces (GUIs) of the Mac OS and Windows.
NCSA Mosaic's graphical interface for the World Wide Web ignited the Internet's most explosive growth in 1993. And guess what folks, with all this development, only about five percent of the population is computer literate."
