Z:gnu-www-ja-kragen-software--ba71f3-Software makes it much easier/en

Software makes it much easier to separate ideas from people, places, and things. If I buy my computer to send email with, and I want to make fractals, I don't have to buy a new fractal machine. I just have to download some fractal software. If I want to calculate the yield force of a strut, I don't have to hire a structural engineer; I can download some FEA software and simulate stressing it until it yields. I don't have to go to a museum to look at my neighbor's fractals; I can just pull them up on my screen. (Once I download them, of course.)