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Originally Posted by Steven Lyle Jordan
People seem to love looking for cute idioms to mean "stupid," such as "four fries short of a happy meal." Maybe people will start using phrases like "under clocked," or "hard drive locked up," to denote stupidity in the future.
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We'll use some analogies, but it is hard to predict what analogies might be meaningful in the future. Those you suggest depend on people having significant knowledge about the inside of a computer. That might be true, or it might not. Personally, I think people that over time, people will have less knowledge of the inside of the computer, as it becomes less accessible. Much of our technology we just use. Consider TVs, when TVs were full of tubes, many people could open them up and repair them. A modern HDTV is much harder to fix, you can't just do down to Radio Shack.