Disadvantage of [Computers + Unscrupulous People]

It memorises "too well" and can lock on to patterns and force users within them.
Less than well intentioned people + a computer becomes like a gun.

( that's the short version )

Gun in this context means something like "a collection of mechanisms whereby a tiny trigger can set off / execute a more complicated chain of reactions or design not visible or obvious to naked eye ).

For the average person a gun or computer is just simple when in reality this "simple" object or even part of it has had millions of hours of evolution and investment and changes towards one thing or another (probably one thing more than another like money, power etc- those old school more primitive roots to find ways to have it "useful" or "to pay back more" than it cost)

So a gun is not simple, nor a PC, tablet PC, mobile phone etc

( that's the short version )

It memorises "too well" and can lock on to patterns and force users within them.
Less than well intentioned people + a computer becomes like a gun.

Gun in this context means something like "a collection of mechanisms whereby a tiny trigger can set off / execute a more complicated chain of reactions or design not visible or obvious to naked eye ).

For the average person a gun or computer is just simple when in reality this "simple" object or even part of it has had millions of hours of evolution and investment and changes towards one thing or another (probably one thing more than another like money, power etc- those old school more primitive roots to find ways to have it "useful" or "to pay back more" than it cost)

So a gun is not simple, nor a PC, tablet PC, mobile phone etc