--- title: "Hammers, Swords & Computers – they are just tools, not gods" url: https://seamusphan.com/hammers-swords-computers-they-are-just-tools-not-gods/ date: 2020-12-06 modified: 2024-12-19 lang: en author: "Dr Seamus Phan" description: "I find it amusing, as a computer scientist and cybersecurity practitioner, that many, nerds and non-nerds, are enamored by all things computers - coding, cybersecurity, AI, etc. Nerds who are..." categories: - "Technology" - "Thoughts" image: https://seamusphan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/krys-amon-eAAR-0iDhic-unsplash-01.png word_count: 156 --- # Hammers, Swords & Computers – they are just tools, not gods I find it amusing, as a computer scientist and cybersecurity practitioner, that many, nerds and non-nerds, are enamored by all things computers - coding, cybersecurity, AI, etc. Nerds who are industry practitioners have good reasons to entrenched in these areas - it is their livelihoods or they are good at it (usually both). However, for most, let us just say God gave each of us a talent or more, and often, each of us is different from the next. Even siblings and twins are not the same. You may be a concert pianist, and your sibling a neurosurgeon, etc. So to uniformly think everyone can be an AI guru, coder, white hat hacker, or computer scientist, is arrogantly naive. Remember, computers and their paraphernalia, are nothing more than tools, just as a hammer is but a tool to a mechanic, and a sword to a samurai. Don't treat computers as gods, because they are merely tools. ![hammer-samurai-computer](https://seamusphan.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/12/hammer-samurai-computer-800x350.jpg)