I’m going to rattle on about converting information between sources as an example of why computers appeal to people. (Well, to me.) It’s the mental challenge.<\/p>\n

If I was even halfway competent at using a keyboard, I’d just type lots of things. But, I’m a terrible typist.<\/p>\n

(In case, that sounds as if I’m any better at handwriting, you’d be dead wrong. I can barely write a legible sentence by hand, since I took up spending my life at computers. I bet that’s true of many people.)<\/p>\n

And I get bored by any repetitive task way too easily. So, if I have any task to do, I look for a more interesting way of doing it. Even if it takes MUCH longer. And fails to work. <\/p>\n

I bet this is true of most people who read this. (Except, maybe, for the people who get here looking for Arnold Schwarzenegger<\/em> or pictures of guns<\/em>, about 10 and 5 every day respectively, in case you wondered.)<\/p>\n

Of course, since it’s me and you I’m talking about, we can take it for granted that this is a good thing<\/em>. “Creative thinking” and so on. (A less charitable person might say “butterfly mind.” ) But, maybe it’s part of why it’s possible to get people to do things for the buzz of working out how to do them, without thinking of the consequences.<\/p>\n

Things like using computers and the internet to collect information from a huge variety of sources and putting them together. <\/p>\n

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