On 2007-05-04 20:51:31 +0100, raden said:

In message , Andy Hall writes

They managed to buy TV sets without any difficulty.
I hardly think that using a television is comparable to using a computer.

Both are sources of information, as is buying a newspaper or a
magazine. They inform and they entertain. There is absolutely no
reason why a computer is not the same other than in people's minds and
because there are people telling them that they can't do things. They
can.


No, it's a completely alien world to some people

My mother, a teacher all her life, is totally incapable of coming to
terms with hers, she's scared of it, she doesn't understand it and
switches off when you try to explain things.

It just doesn't work with some people

Trying to do too much?

A simple web browser environment and nothing else is one way around
that problem; or even walled garden environments like AOL or MSNTV