About the question I asked earlier, as to why people should know how to program, true power is not just a matter of domination, it's a matter of accomodation, or fitting in. Computing is useful for that. It makes it easier to organize things, so they all fit together.

If we don't know how to program, the power of computing is limited, especially the power we could have to customize our computing experience. That last item is really what I'm working at, here.

Here's what I was thinking that brought up these thoughts: my theory is it's very useful for people to record, in detail, their activities, thoughts, and so on. Computers can make this possible in a greatly elevated way. Still, its usefulness is limited if we can't efficiently utilize that record. Today's computing is very good at gathering and distributing information, not so good - though, in some ways, not so bad, either - at condensing it so that large realms of data can be effectively reviewed. (This is related to the portal theory, again.)