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After working a few years in tech support, I found I ended up treating machines like they had temperments, doing fixes that would work in one case, but not in another that (As far as I could tell) was identical. I knew logically that I was dealing with hunks of plastic and transistors that operated by set rules, but I found that I pretty much HAD to anthropomorphize them to solve some problems. I had to figure out what the machine was trying to 'tell' me.
I think that as complexity of devices increase, it introduces a certain amount of 'personality' into things, and that despite our best efforts, no two machines will ever be exactly alike. Since there's no way to account for all the random forces and factors that influence whether a device works or not, mebbe it's just easier and better to believe the photocopier by the break room hates you
I think that as complexity of devices increase, it introduces a certain amount of 'personality' into things, and that despite our best efforts, no two machines will ever be exactly alike. Since there's no way to account for all the random forces and factors that influence whether a device works or not, mebbe it's just easier and better to believe the photocopier by the break room hates you
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