Our minds are like computers. Most of them aren’t really that smart, but they can be quite good at certain things. Some of them become so good at their job that they are able to master things that we couldn’t even dream of just a few years ago. The biggest thing that computers have to be taught by teachers is how to use the right tools.
That’s a good point. Computers are often blamed for not being “smarter” than people who have more advanced training. Of course computers arent actually smarter than people who have more advanced training. Computer training can take years. But the most important fact is that even these computers arent really that smart.
Computer training is actually a very good thing. It means that a computer can learn to program, but that its skills are limited. It can learn to play games like chess, but its understanding of the rules is still limited. Computer training is more like a series of lessons on how to play the game.
I used to think computers were as smart as computers were. Now I know it’s just people who have learned how to program computers to do something they can’t do. Now I think it’s a matter of personal philosophy, and how much of a programmer you are.
The only thing that a computer can do that you can’t is learn to code. And that is because the computer’s skill set is limited because the computer is a computer. If you tell a computer to find the shortest path between two points it knows nothing about or can program to, then you are still limited in what the computer can do. You can’t tell it to play chess, or to write a program that will learn the rules of chess.
The same is true of information systems. Your computer might know how to play chess (and it probably does, because it exists), but it cannot program the rules of the game to a human. And if that human has the ability to program to the computer, then the computer has to learn the rules as well.
Another thing you might not know is that computers are actually very good at programming to humans. They have, over time, been made to learn and be more effective at programming to humans. Think about it. If you use a typewriter to type a letter, you need to type it twice to make sure it works. If you use a typewriter to type an email, you need to type it twenty-five times to make sure it works. It takes time and energy to type a letter.
Another thing that you might not know is that computers are actually very good at programming to humans. They have, over time, been made to learn and be more effective at programming to humans. Think about it. If you use a typewriter to type a letter, you need to type it twice to make sure it works. If you use a typewriter to type an email, you need to type it twenty-five times to make sure it works.
You use a computer to type a letter, you need to type it ten times to make sure it works. If you use a computer to type a sentence, it needs to be written sixty times to make sure it works.
The same goes for information systems. We have computers to manage information, and we have to do it twice for each piece of information that we have. But it’s important to understand that this isn’t the only way it works. There are a bunch of people out there who are better at writing than you.