has computer software scuttled people's scientific and analytical abilities?

Question

Computer software is not an exact science. But unfortunately computer languages are learnt as though they are a treatise on Maths or Physics. Design Automation software make people think that they deisgn, while they really do not. Arbitrary and unbound methods and procedures are assumed as sound processes. We may soon have people who do not understand even Newton's Laws.

Answer 1

While I agree with what you are saying in the broader sense, I also believe that the scientific and analytical abilities of the general population have been abysmal for years.

Computer software is a tool to use to understand and model that which is already known (or which we think we know). The ready accessibility of that information at least leads to a somewhat deeper (basic) understanding of the topic at hand for the casual user and affords the real scientists the ability to model ideas within a known framework. Of course, those real scientists understand the difference between a theoretical model and the observable world.

Answer 2

I think computer software has made things easier for people. I think that in the working world, the computer is a much better tool for analysis than man is. However, I think students should be required to learn the real process behind everything and do it the old fashioned way so there is understanding of how things work. Typing numbers into a computer and then clicking the mouse don't teach anyone anything. THey just get highly accurate answers. But an answer is not any good if you don't understand what it means. So yes, the computer has hurt people's abilities to an extent, but it also has helped them to do things faster and far more accurately than they would without it.

Answer 3

While you are right about the precision of software, our analytical abilities are a natural trait of mankind. Such traits, while they may not be fully developed, will not go away. And, effective analytical skills are relatively simple to teach. So, once we figure out what's wrong, it will be easy to fix. Even if it takes 100 years.

However, as long as we're riding the "lazy wagon," letting our machines do the thinking for us, I'd bet that our technologic advancement will be hindered. The greatest technological breakthroughs are concepts that have never before been pursued. Computers are incapable of ingenuity.

But, there are some who still use computers as the tool they were designed to be. SpaceShipOne was a product of original thinking, assisted by computers. And there are others. Someday, these sorts of companies will start to pull ahead, and will drag the scientific community behind them.

Answer 4

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Answer 5

Someone has to write the under-lying principles of how the software works. So the knowlegde is out there, just not used in an everyday type of situation as much as it would be without the software.

But, that is why we have academia.

Answer 6

I think it has hurt their interpersonal skills. Sometimes a whole day can go by and you realize that you've hardly talked to anyone face to face.

Answer 7

A computer can only do what people program it to do.

Answer 8

yes

Answer 9

yes