MBInvention:Mother of Necessity
October 3rd 2006 01:06
Think about how many necessities have been born of inventions in recent years and you'll probably agree that whoever first came up with the notion that "necessity is the mother of invention" had no idea what joys and demons computer life can bring.
Case in point: the virus scan. Anyone who doesn't have and run one is a gambler or an idiot. I was an idiot once. It was my first computer and I was so naive that I figured I wasn't doing anything that warranted anybody taking the time or trouble to infect my hard drive. Did you ever hear the sound or see the sight of a virus? I did. It was a high pitched eeeeeeeee, followed by black.
Now back to our now beloved friend, the virus scan. No one would have come up with it, if there were no viruses to scan. Do you wash clean clothes? No. Do you fill a full gas tank? No. Therefore, you wouldn't scan a healthy disk drive for germs. But you do now because someone came up with (invented, if you will) a sickness that would eat that drive and spit it out to you in mushy pieces. Here we have a clear case of invention (the virus) mothering necessity (the virus scan).
Think about that the next time you have to decipher unintelligible letters and/or numbers to enter a site, post a comment, anything secure. Someone invented those nasty little bots. And that invention mothered the security tests.
What'll they think of next?
Case in point: the virus scan. Anyone who doesn't have and run one is a gambler or an idiot. I was an idiot once. It was my first computer and I was so naive that I figured I wasn't doing anything that warranted anybody taking the time or trouble to infect my hard drive. Did you ever hear the sound or see the sight of a virus? I did. It was a high pitched eeeeeeeee, followed by black.
Now back to our now beloved friend, the virus scan. No one would have come up with it, if there were no viruses to scan. Do you wash clean clothes? No. Do you fill a full gas tank? No. Therefore, you wouldn't scan a healthy disk drive for germs. But you do now because someone came up with (invented, if you will) a sickness that would eat that drive and spit it out to you in mushy pieces. Here we have a clear case of invention (the virus) mothering necessity (the virus scan).
Think about that the next time you have to decipher unintelligible letters and/or numbers to enter a site, post a comment, anything secure. Someone invented those nasty little bots. And that invention mothered the security tests.
What'll they think of next?
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