It stands beside the microwave, TV, VCR, cell-phone and dishwasher. If you know how to work it, you use it to do things. Like operating the microwave to heat coffee. I m not ducking the added complexity of the computers. But there was a time when you didn t know how to make a left turn in your car.
Complexity can disappear with help and practice.
We ve all done it before. When you have a mainframe computer as an appliance, all kinds of devices, which want brains but don t have them, need to connect to your computer to work. Of all the devices your computer controls, the gateway to the Internet is arguably the most important. Big Blue and Cousins is in the process of massively upgrading Internet access for the clubhouse computers as I write. At press time, the hardware work has been done.