My computer (I’ll call her Jill) came Styrofoamd into a box which framed the shape she’s in. We tried to give her freedom to think past these confines by discarding the box and placing her on a roomy desktop. We hurriedly put all the loose ends together in all the tight spots and with trembling anticipation flipped her switch! All the dumb thing did was run in place and count from 0 to 1. It soon became evident that Jill came programmed with zero creativity Icons, someone would need to punch that in.
Jill did have an uncanny attitude about selective memory. If she ate something off the desktop and was all keyed up to save it, she would stuff it into a closet somewhere. Jill would never forget that she had eaten it but she couldn’t begin to remember where she put it Why, even a squirrel can do better than that!
It’s only fair that we talk a bit more about Jill’s abill to count. She’ll tell you she can interpret almost all languages which is true but, when no one’s around, she thinks only in Binary. I understand that this allows her to count upwards into the kerzabatrillions in just a few na, na, na, na, na na seconds. Jill might be the sharpest gal in the tower but she’s a bit clumsy in the headlights of the monitor.
Meanwhile, I’ll keep coaxing my treadmill powered scooter uphill!
