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People
have no innate understanding of any
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technology
more complicated than a stick
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We must be trained to ride a bicycle,
drive a car, ski, ...
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Appliances
and tools come with an owner’s manual
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But
people accumulate experience, learn and reason,
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so
we can “figure out” how to use some gear without
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reading
the owner’s manual, e.g. portable CD player
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Product
designers try to make technology so simple
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that
members of a technological society can guess its
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operation
using only experience, knowledge and
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reasoning
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