nobody asked…

Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand. — Putt’s Law

Source: InformationWeek Daily Newsletter, www.informationweek.com, Monday, Nov. 7, 2005

Could this possibly be a clue as to why Windows is so fragile, why VCRs and DVDs are so impossibly difficult to program just to record a show you have to miss, and dashboards are so cluttered we have to pull over to the side of the road, put on our glasses, turn on the interior lights, and get out the manual written in 17 languages including English if we’re lucky - just to change the radio station?

Technology companies resolve the dilemma, of course, by forming committees (the closer to Silicon Valley, the more likely they are called “teams” or “pods” or “nodes” or whatever the buzz du jour might be) of people who don’t understand each other and cannot communicate in any known tongue, dialect, hieroglyphic, or visual signaling code.

Wonder what this little unlabeled button does? Oh, damn…