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The question of how a computer functions technically, thus, has nothing to do with the question of what it means socially. You can understand one without having the foggiest notion about the other. Who still looks under the hood these days when the car breaks down on the highway? You can't know everything, and at some point you have to say enough is enough in terms of details. This isn't a 'deficit in practice,' but rather the necessary separation of the wheat from the chaff. Indeed, I even suspect that the opposite may be true: 'practice' is the favourite term of the clueless. If you want to understand the computer as a medium, there's no point in taking it apart.
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