People don't like them. They have changed our world in ways we couldn't have imagined only decades ago. They have brought us an incredible leap in prosperity that is completely unprecedented in human history. Yet, people don't like them.
Sure, people like their phones, their smart TVs and their gaming consoles and, sure, all those things are computers, but they don't feel like computers. Those things have been carefully designed to feel more approachable, more "human". Very talented people have invested a lot of time, money and passion into finding those patterns that let us perceive the illusion of humanity in those feelingless, cold machines. It goes beyond usability, approachability and "user experience", as they call it. It's an art form in itself to make the machine disappear and create objects that can act towards us like servants, extensions of ourselves, friends or even loved ones.
Isn't it strange that this works? That computers can act as a substrate for models of humanity that can exist without anything biological? In their core, computers are pure logic. So are we, too? Is there anything more to us than the processing of information? Maybe it's the fear that logic is all there is to it and that there's nothing special about humanity that leads people to dislike computers.
Well, or maybe it's the fact that they never bloody work properly ...
