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♪ ♪ ♪ the average family home. cory practices her violin. christian plays with his cars. and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went into the 1980s in pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators, tv, oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch, and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now,...

♪ ♪ the average family home, cory practices her violin, christian plays with his cars and mike and carol worry over the bills. >> we went in with pretty much the same technology thats been in place for a couple of decades. typewriter. calculators. tv. oven. a car. you listen to music on a big old stereo system with a turntable. maybe you had a digital watch and that was the only thing that was going to be digital that you actually owned. >> hello? im not here now but my faithful ...

The Heroku co-founder is an advocate for bringing out the best in computers, but he's not shy about what's not working in the tech industry today.

The Heroku co-founder is an advocate for bringing out the best in computers, but he's not shy about what's not working in the tech industry today.

Called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty. now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people have never encountered this stuff. >> dont shift. >> so there is a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if ...

How to use computers. >> my son just took a computer class in school, and hes only 8 years old. i figure id just as soon be as smart as he is. >> for all you hear about friendly, they arent really, except for playing pac man. >> a small snag in computer marketing is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a...

Especially for playing pacman. >> a small snag in computer marketing has been what is called technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty. now what do i do? ♪ >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people have never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there is a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples ...

Technophobia. fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> righ...

Fear of these bloodless little wizards. the manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you ...

The manufacturers are trying to overcome it by making them what they call user-friendly. >> isnt that pretty? now what do i do? >> making computers easy enough to use for a beginner, it wasnt always true. people had never encountered this stuff. >> hold down shift and press -- >> so there was a great disconnect between the ambitions of the apples and microsofts and the realities of people trying to use these things for the first time. >> right now, if you buy a computer system and you want to so...