it's hard to really convey the level of society-wide enthusiasm for exploring the potential of computers that existed in the 1980s
there were all manner of children's books; there were big-budget movies presenting visions of what the new world might be like; there were courses about it in primary school
in those days, occasional adults understood computers, but the bulk of the real insight was held by children. children were the ones who were playing in an exploratory fashion, whereas adults tended to treat it as a list of steps to memorize, even the ones who were trying to build expertise.
because the world incorrectly presents expertise as being about memorization, in general, not just in the area of computers
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