TCA!

What do you think keeps some people from learning computers?

Themselves. Thanks to Hollywood, alot of people are stuck in the paradigm that computers are these magical complex objects that are out to get them. If people actually went at them with an open mind, they'd find out they are much simpler then they had ever imagined.

Do you think that computers ultimately benefit or hurt society?

Neither. The people who would use computers to do bad things to others would just find another way to do bad things to those people. People who commit identity theft online would probably just break into peoples houses instead if computers were not around. I have the same opinion on gun control. It wouldn't reduce violence at all, people would just use other weapons such as knives, or blunt objects. People these days are too keen to cure the symptoms, but not the root of the problem.

Do you play games on computers or video game systems? Which? Why do you like/not like them?

I play both computer games and 360 games. I like computer games more because they usually offer more depth. However, my 360 sees more time with friends because it is much easier to set up a multiplayer game in the living room with four people and four controllers than it is to set up a LAN party. I like video games because it gives me an opportunity to do things that are not possible for me in real life.

Why do you think some people believe the internet is going to destroy today’s “youth”?

Because it is. Never before have people been able to gain access to pornography, drug paraphanelia, stolen goods, commit identity theft, mail fraud, or other such things, all within five minutes of each other, and without leaving their bedroom to boot. Myself, I am not proud of this, but I no longer have any concept of value for music or movies. This is all thanks to the internet.

That sort of technology have the various schools you attended have?

Isbester had some sort of old apple iis, I think. I cant really remember that far back. My middle school had some random crappy network of emacs off a shared 64k ISDN line. You can imagine 32 people in “computer class” (or atleast they called it that. I learned nothing from those classes.) trying to surf the web off a shared connection barely faster then 56k. My highschool had deepfreeze’d workstations connected to a windows 2k3 based network. Im not really sure what kind of internet they had, but it topped out at around 50mbits. They also had poor security. The domain controller’s password was only 4 characters long and only numbers.