Productivity is up, up up! It's off the scale!
All due to computers.
The trouble with that is that somebody has to write code to make things happen.
The trouble with THAT is that the people who write code are treated like godz.
But they're not. They are people who may be very good at a small set of skills, which small set of skills have been inflated into something seemingly god-like.
The obvious truth they fail to see, time and time again, is that in the real world, most people don't want to know about the arcane details of their craft. Or have to learn anything about it.
There's a name for these people, and it isn't pretty. We're called "users".
So when programmers include a keystroke combination as a hot-key for picking the default setting for something that appears in a window, and when I, a user, fat-finger that hot-key combination by mistake, I am not interested in learning how cool it is to be able to hot key back and forth between those settings. I want a simple and obvious way to get it back to where it was.
I know for a fact that some users (we'll call them "power users") feel that it is very cool to be able to change default settings using these hot-keys. Their heads are full of key-stroke combinations they can use in thousands of situations across dozens of programs in order to make things happen more quickly.
Sadly, I have neither the room in my head, nor the desire to learn these things. Sure, if I were in command of the phasers aboard some starship and I needed to toggle quickly between the Current Location of the enemy battalion and the History of Movement of the enemy battalion, I would probably learn the key-stroke sequence.
My hope would be that in addition to my ability to present these Facts in a rapid manner I would have room in my head to perceive the Pattern behind the Facts as presented on my screen. And that I wouldn't accidentally whack some keystroke combination that would instantaneously bring up the weather on Tarus or something...
