Wieso meine Mutter Angst vor dem Computer hat

This, in a nutshell, describes perfectly the way I see most non-technical folk relate to computers. They’ve just been hit so many times by software that makes no sense to them that they approach every task with fear and uncertainty—instead of making users more productive (and, therefore, happier), software makes them more depressed.

Quelle: Dashes, spaces, and incompetence