17th April 2005, 2:23 PM
By "layperson" I mean those who thing of things magically rather than logical analysis.
Also, by easily confused, I mean that one who thinks more logically might merely assume it to be a piece of technology from the start. It's not as though such people are unheard of in the old world.
Also, by easily confused, I mean that one who thinks more logically might merely assume it to be a piece of technology from the start. It's not as though such people are unheard of in the old world.
"On two occasions, I have been asked [by members of Parliament], 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question." ~ Charles Babbage (1791-1871)