So what are all those suddenly unemployed Mexican illegals going to do for a living?
Maybe electric? So much depends there on the source of the electric power but electric motors tend to be cleaner, quieter -- even prettier -- than loud stinky gas guzzling two stroke engines.
Exactly. Too many people had to learn how computers worked because their use was geared to how they do work under the covers, as opposed to abstracted to "just work" for users who consume those services. You only need to know how filesystems work if you are working at a storage vendor or an OS company, or contributing to open source projects. Those people know how they work emphatically. We do not need to live in a world where the users of computers understand the intricate details of how computers work. Abstraction should be the norm. When your typical office worker goes to open an Excel document, they should be presented with their excel documents, and other places they might be stored (such as removable media). They do not need to see the entire hard drive's storage structure. You shouldn't be able to browse to C:\Windows\System32\Drivers\etc\ from the "open Excel file" dialog box. This change is a good thing.
You shouldn't *need* to browse outside the Excel data sandbox but sometimes you might really want to. Say an excel file has landed, for whatever reason nutty or not, in some random directory. One of the reasons I cannot abide snaps or any of its cousins. In attempting to protect the system from fools we don't want to restrict the activities of innovators. My machine is my machine, not the property of Excel. Okay yes we want self-driving cars to stick to the planned route from A to B, but we may want to switch off the autopilot and take the scenic road P along the River Q.
The only way to learn a new programming language is by writing programs in it. - Brian Kernighan
