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WotD: Plug and Play
Estimated reading time: 2 minutes
We are living in a plug-and-play world.
Now, you may be wondering what the heck that means.
When we describe something as plug and play, we mean we can plug one device into another, and it works immediately without us, the users, having to reconfigure or adjust it in any way.
You connect one to the other, and you’re done.
Think about a dongle, for example.
If you are still using thumb drives, and in Japan, people probably are, you plug it into the USB port on your computer, and it works.
Your computer will recognize it, and you can download your files to it.
It’s easy peasy, plug and play, as simple as apple pie.
These days that’s not only what we expect; it’s what we demand.
Therefore, when something expected to be plug and play doesn’t work as advertised, we become frustrated and angry.
This plug-and-play style is simplifying technology.
If you are old enough, and that means over thirty, then you have probably been defeated by your VCR when you were trying to set the clock.
I can’t tell you how many homes I’ve been to where the VCR time display flashed continuously because no one could figure out how to set it.
VCRs were not plug-and-play devices.
Thank God they are a thing of the past.
Yes, tech is becoming user-friendly.
These days even the ability to code is becoming unnecessary.
Software is becoming plug-and-play.
I’ve downloaded quite a few apps onto my website, and they work – no coding required.
I’m happy to be living in a plug-and-play world.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is understandable by someone with at least a 7th-grade education (age 12).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 72.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.