Like I keep saying, I bet 95% of users want a mysterious black box - one that's easy to operate and doesn't break much. I don't accept that wanting to know what goes on inside your computer or the pipes of the interweb is at all analogous to wanting to understand how your society works. My networked computer helps me understand how society works, but that doesn't mean I want to know what's going on under this keyboard.
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Go outward.
Move beyond the computer and think of this as a call for understanding how the *technological component* of your society works.
This is the point that's routinely dropped - it isn't all about writing code and building your own motherboards but actively engaging with technology.
This can be at the level of educating ourselves so our techno-related requirements are finely crafted (this moves recursively back to what I stated last week about the design element of efforts to adjust to, reverse, and soften the effects of global warming).
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