Se abre el telón y aparecen un inglés y un español entrando a una red social. Se cierra el telón. ¿Cómo llaman a la película? El inglés Facebook, el español Feisbuk.
This, which at first appears to be nonsense, is a reflection of the cybernetic culture that we Spaniards have in general. And although many would like to hide it, we Spaniards are educated from a young age in the Internet Explorer School, which has little prestige.
I belong to one of the first generations that grew up with a computer in their room, when computers stopped being devices that only served to play Arkanoid and process spreadsheets. At that time Windows 95 was beginning to consolidate and I had been scammed for the first time by assuring me that Windows 3.11 would last a few more years.
At school they always taught us to read and write, but using a computer was something too modern, even geeky I would say. Whatever we wanted to learn about computers and computing should be on our own, and it was really understandable since it was not yet common to have a computer in every home. The few “computer science” academies that existed at that time were only dedicated to teaching the basics of office automation (although now that I think about it, perhaps things have not changed that much). This is how the discredit of a specialty begins to be forged, making people believe that taking an aspirin is the same as studying medicine.
Everything related to computing evolves by leaps and bounds year after year, but education remains the same and if you want to use a computer you must make a living. And then what happens happens, ignorance and lack of desire to learn leads, on the one hand, to not knowing how to use a computer, to the inability to understand the ins and outs of the Internet and social networks and may also be the reason for the mistreatment suffered by computer scientists in Spain.
Power without control is useless, and in the same way that you would not give a car to someone who does not have a license, you would not give a computer without first having taught the person who is going to receive it how to use it. Because having a car does not make you Fernando Alonso, nor does having a computer make you Bill Gates.
Article written for the blog of Internet Meeting Point Forum. As? Have you not yet read his program piece?