The whole corporate world
gets some blame, too. Remember
before point-and-click
when people wanted
to do things with computers
people needed words
to tell the machine
what to do. Correctly spelled!
But corporations
want to employ folks
who are stupid (they cost less)
and corporations
want to sell to folks
who are stupid (they buy crap)
so before blaming
only our bad schools,
remember our corporate world
profits from stooopids.
Actually the move to point-and-click was about capturing the home market. Corporations didn't mind the difficult computer interfaces because at that point very little of their business had moved to computers and there was no problem with their computer using employees having to be smart. But the home market didn't like the blank screen and the blinking cursor, the big question the home market had for computers was "what do I do with it" and the c-prompt was incapable of answering that question, but a GUI with all your programs arranged nicely by category could answer it. Also the home market didn't want to have to spend hours learning wierd stuff, they wanted a simple appliance no more difficult than their TV or microwave (actually they still want that, the industry is getting closer).