- Fear:
to destroy the machine,
to lose control,
to make oneself feel stupid and incompetent,
of new tools, not to understand it.
- Alienation:
isolation, people talk less, loss of social abilities,
tend to expect YES/NO answers hence loose of social patience.
- Inequality:
Access to information, education and jobs not for everybody
(just for the rich, young, ..).
- Personal Powerlessness:
Computer interfaces replace humans ->
no complains possible (versus organizations).
- Ever changing, complex software:
Software more and more complex, more options,
constantly new versions and new products.
- Dependency:
Computer failure leads to breakdown of company, etc.
- Private sphere:
Data-security.
- Loss of jobs:
Expert-systems. Automated printing.
- Loss of Responsibility:
Employees become powerless operators,
take computer failure as excuse,
Take GUI limitation as excuse that something is not
possible,
user relies only on Interface and does not
understand the underlying process anymore.
- Loss of trust in people:
People believe more in the
answer from a computer than in a
human expert.