Hardware – definition supplied by Wikipedia reads: “…the machines wiring, and other physical components of a computer or other electronic system.”
Software – definition supplied by Wikipedia reads: “…is a collection of computer programs and related data that provide the instructions for telling a computer what to do and how to do it.”
Wetware – definition supplied by Wikipedia was far too complicated as it was written by a human being.
Wetware is us, the “organic bit”, the end user.
Let’s begin by settling the myth.
There is no such thing as Computer Utopia! If Bill Gates and Steve Jobs, either together or apart, have not found Computer Utopia, then it does not exist. And when it does, I am out of a job!
Somewhere, sometime, someone (an organic bit) started a myth, a myth that suggested that computers were trouble free, and that all they needed was to be plugged into a little bit of electricity.
All that we organic bits would need to do is to push a set of buttons in a set way, at set times, and incredible, unimaginable things would happen on the little TV screen in front of us. Simples!
This is “Computer Utopia – The Myth”.
And now to the “Computer Utopia – The Reality”…
Computers are complex machines, made up of Hardware, being told what to do by Software making lots of parts come together to do lots of incredible, unimaginable things on the little TV screen in front of us. Not Simples!
The fact is that these ingenious pieces of kit are made using Wetware – the organic bit, and put together by other organic bits, running Software that has been written by yet more organic bits, who think they understand the Hardware and computers in general. Of course no one has considered that the organic bit makes mistakes, perhaps thinks too much (or not enough), may have had a cold the day he wrote the latest OS (operating system), could have been going through a nasty divorce, might have stubbed his foot on the desk …
And then there are the cleverer organic bits who deliberately go out of their way to make the less clever organic bits’ lives miserable, by making our clever, ingenious bits of kit slow down, stop altogether, send emails on their own, give bank account details to a nice man in Nigeria…
This is “Computer Utopia – The Reality”.
With a no-nonsense approach and understanding of the organic bit at the end of the keyboard (we are organic bits ourselves), PC Centre Algarve can make a difference by listening and resolving without overcomplicating and using the biggest asset it has – experience.
Computer Utopia: the myth
