Observed many times ...
something about "tech" seems to send *some* brains into some sort of FUD-crash.
I've seen perfectly intelligent adults (teachers, actually - when I started "Computer Studies" in 1980) completely freeze in terror when confronted with an Apple][ and treat is as if it were some sort of demonic box. But because they had already convinced themselves it was "sorcery", they had no chance of mastering it.
What's more worrying is, I still see it to this day.
One of my earliest - and possibly greatest - insights at school, was that people who started off anything saying "I couldn't possibly ...." almost invariably never did.
Biting the hand that feeds IT
