Modernmechanix has this wonderful picture of a woman explaining how the telephone dial works.
It serves as a good reminder how all new technology must be learned and how even the obvious is difficult before we have mastered it. A few years ago I showed a telephone with an old fashioned dial to a six year old who had no problems with mobile telephones and computers. He stared at it and asked: “How does it work?” When I explained the system he looked very condescendingly at the telephone and exclaimed in disbelief “But why wouldn’t you use buttons?”
Technology is not only learned – it must be remembered…