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What is computing for?
I can hear the experts scoffing. "It's not for any one thing," they are sneering. What it's for depends on the user's needs.
Now, I don't want to get into a protracted argument, here. I've tried that, and it didn't get me anywhere. I just got laughed at by the experts. I'm not, you see, by normal standards, an expert, so the expert's natural reaction is to laugh at me ... particularly if I say something about computing.
That's as far as I'll go on that subject. I'm proposing that computing might be for one thing and one thing only. I'm not proposing this because I think it's necessarily true - maybe it is, and maybe it isn't - but because, for one thing, I like the idea, and I can propose whatever I want, and then, for another, I think it might shed some useful light on the subject. OK, I need to go back to my rant. Why is computing so baffling? I could say, to be sympathetic, that it's because it's new, and maybe that's true, but I could also point to a more sinister reason. And the sneers I get for saying I know anything about computing, which you could say are just a form of habitual or instinctive behavior on the part of the experts - the fraternity members - also have - you know this is true - a related more sinister origin. If I, a know-nothing non-member, could say something useful about computing, why, it would become apparent that the emperors have no clothes on! And, if it turns out that computing is actually for one thing and one thing only, that would definitely threaten an entire industry based on getting people to pay for the incredibly complicated tools that are required to operate a machine that is not built for any particular purpose.
Computing is virtual reality. It shows you pictures of things that don't exist. You have to allow the language a bit of squishiness - what does the word "exist" mean? - but if you will do that, that is what computing is for.
Before I move along to more substantial questions, one more brief comment. Computing is also called a medium. Media are virtual reality, and they are nothing new. It's true, though, that computing is a new kind of medium. Well, not necessarily computing, per se, that is, math - that has been used to create images of things that don't exist, or, as it may be, otherwise can't be seen, forever - but it is true that this thing called electronic computing is new ... at least, it is to us. (And it's pretty cool.) (We link you now to our The History of Electronic Computing.)
What are these more substantial questions? Questions? There is only one, though it leads to endless others, and though it does lead to endless others, the one question is: now that you own a computer, what can you do with it?
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