What word best describes someone whose joy in life is to spread a computer virus? Will they always exist – those people and viruses? I want to meet the person behind one; the person whose mind thinks that way. I want to ask, why cause damage when you could be contributing? I wonder what the thought process is. You’d think that with a brain as sharp as theirs, they could find more clever ways of spending time. Ah, but you say, what they do is rather clever. Yes, but, I say, what kind of cleverness is this? Something’s not computing right. It can’t just be about money. These people can make mucho moola if they’d get off their fanny, and look around. Perhaps they’re not smart enough to join forces with the world and do something exceptional with their knowledge.
If my life depended on my being able to create a virus, say if I got caught up in a sinister plot of sorts, it would be bye bye world for me. I can’t even get my laptop back to its original state when it needs help. This is how the conversation goes between me and the person I’ve appealed to for help: he says, “Stop saying you don’t understand.” And I respond, this irks him a bit, “But why? I don’t understand.” So, then he says, “Think of a computer as being human, not a machine, something made by a human.” Nah! That doesn’t work either. For me, trying to repair a computer has the same feeling as a puzzle with 1000 pieces, and all the pieces are the exact color.
I know that to be able to take charge of something, you have to understand it. It’s like a game; but I’m not fond of this game. I guess though that when you play the game, it’s important to understand it. I’m sure that in a hundred years from now it’ll be entirely different. However, since this is the early stages of personal computers, the game has just begun.
Oh, what a thought.