I often wonder: for someone with no understanding of how computers work; no idea about electricity and transistors, no idea about CPUs executing instructions, no idea about software and abstraction: what do they think about when they click a ‘play’ button in a music player, and the interface updates and music starts? Do they think about what is happening ‘inside’ the box? I think I do.
I suspect I have a completely different mental model than them - just a completely different casual understanding of it. I find it hard to imagine how they must see the modern world. It must seem like magic!
Note that I’m not at-all speaking about intelligence here. Just knowledge.
Anyway: for that person, I think that if they read ‘Code’, their entire understanding of the world would change, which is sort of amazing.
I suspect I have a completely different mental model than them - just a completely different casual understanding of it. I find it hard to imagine how they must see the modern world. It must seem like magic!
Note that I’m not at-all speaking about intelligence here. Just knowledge.
Anyway: for that person, I think that if they read ‘Code’, their entire understanding of the world would change, which is sort of amazing.