[Sigia-l] Don't Make me Learn

[Jen Miller]

What about...

GPS - the first systems were VERY difficult to use :)  however now they are a huge blessing

Email is a good one - wow - that wasn't easy to explain to my parents and now even my grandfather emails!

ATM - even this was a little "scary" to people at first - especially the first time my card with sucked back into the machine during my college years - now what do I do?!?!

Any cell phone that does more than just email was pretty overwhelming for many people

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From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On Behalf Of Juan Ruiz [Juan.Ruiz at hyro.com]
Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2007 9:26 PM
To: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Don't Make me Learn

Emails - think back when you had to describe what is an 'email' to your
parents

Internet Banking - I do remember when people were all confused and
hesitant about using online banking services.

Video Game controllers - starting with 1 single button to multiple
buttons controllers (somebody already mentioned it)

Home networking - wireless and Ethernet. How many households nowadays
have home networks?

iPod? - the circular navigation control...


And I think this list can go forever, after all, for every new
discovery, new concepts had to be taught.

-Juan

-----Original Message-----
From: sigia-l-bounces at asis.org [mailto:sigia-l-bounces at asis.org] On
Behalf Of jorge valescos
Sent: Wednesday, 22 August 2007 10:41 AM
To: SIGIA-L
Subject: Re: [Sigia-l] Don't Make me Learn

On 21/8/07 5:28 PM, "Ziya Oz" <listera at earthlink.net> wrote:

> My goal is to collect examples of technologies (HW/SW) that at first
seem
> complicated, almost impossible for the novice until, of course,
literally
> hundreds of millions of people do in fact learn to use and then forget
what
> the initial fuss was all about. I'm not minimizing the initial climb,
but
> simply exploring the fact that this happens *all the time*. Here are
just a
> few:


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