Humanity can be divided into 2 categories. In fact, anything (humanity included) can always be divided into two categories. In the particular case of humanity, we could divide it into “men and women” or “young and old” or “poor and rich”, etc. Personally, I think that every division always carries some prejudiced connotation, but that doesn't mean I stop dividing humanity according to the criterion that is most meaningful to me: “people who like to think and people who don't like to think”. When I classify someone as a person who “likes to think,” it means they get PLEASURE from using their brain. This pleasure causes the brain to be used as much as possible and this person usually (but not necessarily) ends up developing a higher level of intelligence. This implies an even revolutionary concept: intelligence is, within certain limits, an acquired skill. Furthermore, it is not acquired through painful hours of study but through leisure! People who don't like to think end up developing an undifferentiated intellectual level and limit themselves in their activities, reinforcing a vicious circle and “dumbing down” more and more! These are people who only read out of obligation (and not for pleasure), have fun watching TV or videos, hate programming a computer and only use it as a video game. If, professionally, they are forced to use a computer, they only use “user” programs. friendly” and view the computer as a “black box” whose inner workings are and should continue to be a great mystery.
To serve thousands of users who use their MSX as a stimulus, we gave Martello the task of organizing this collection of programs. The software we are targeting is that of the readers' brain: what remains in the RAM memory of the micro € that is listed on these pages is a simple pretext. There is a saying that can be applied to video game players and “executive” users of expensive computers: “Every time something is made that can even be used by an idiot, it will probably only be used by idiots!”. To escape this growing “idiotization” of humanity, Martello and the other collaborators created the material for this book: if we are losing the fight from a quantitative point of view, from a qualitative point of view we and our readers are winning by far!
