People can be crazy, and Computer Companies can be crazy also

Computer Craziness has happened, no doubt about it. And we need to take this craziness seriously - instead of doing our best to ignore it.

The best way to look at this problem, is to examine our many religious manias in the past. And consider this another one of those religious excitements. Where the rational part of our minds, is taken over by our emotions. 

Our religious nature is one of the most fundamental parts of our human nature - and we should take it seriously. Instead of giving into it, without a fight. 

I would date the beginning of Computer Craziness to about 1980, when I became involved in it personally. I had been an Electronic Engineer, which meant I was an expert in\Vacuum Tubes. But Solid State technology made that obsolete - and created the Digital Computer also - all at the same time! 

I observed, with amazement - how this empowered the worst kind of people. And made rich, people who should have been in jail! Everyone else noticed nothing at all. 

This was their way of coping with it - to see nothing at all! Not the brightest solution, but one that was easy for them, at the time. 

They did not say "We are into another religious mania, here - and will have to treat this carefully!"

Suckered Into Being a Savior

Poor Jesus, crucified to save mankind!

But he didn't end up so bad off - he became part of the Christian deity (as Christ). And is worshipped by millions of Christians everywhere.

Christianity was successful because it recognized something important in human nature - our eagerness to sacrifice ourselves for a higher good. Usually religious in nature.

The history of how this belief became part of Christianity, then medieval Europe, and then the Modern world - is much more than I can go into here. But it happened - and this is where we are now.

When I was working in Silicon Valley, in the Nineties, I looked at all the craziness around me - and said to myself "Business has become our new religion!"

And not only that - Software has become a new religion. And one I am worshipping myself.

I have spent hundred of dollars on Windows 10 computers. Only to realize, that I have ended up with nothing! Yes, boys and girls, Windows 10 is nothing much - and you can quote me on that. It reminds me of the Titanic - the perfect ship, that ended up on the bottom of the ocean.

For example - Visual Studio, Microsoft's excellent IDE, cannot be installed in Windows 10! At least in low-end machines. However, I could install it, easily enough, on my low-end Windows 7 computer.

I have been suckered into supporting Windows 10 - thinking that, since it was the latest version - it was better! The same is true of Android - I bought the latest version, thinking it would be better for me, when it was not.

And while am bad-mouthing software's sacred cows - I might as mention its holy of holies - the Cloud! I have written plenty about how great it is - but now I have been baptized in its waters, I don't feel so pure.

Software is written by people, and some of them (at the highest levels) are not so pure.