This is a very common sentiment I see everywhere and it really highlights how uneducated most people are about technology in general. Most folks seem to expect things to work magically and perform physics breaking feats and it honestly baffles me. I would expect this attitude from maybe the younger generations who grew up only being users of technology like tablets and smartphones, but I honestly never expected millennials to be in the same camp, but nope they are just as ignorant. And I am thinking to myself, did I grow up different? Were my friends also not using the same Nintendo cartridges, and VCR's and camcorders and all the other tech that you had no choice but to learn at least basic fundamentals to use? Apparently most people never delved deeper then surface level on how to use these things and everything else went right over their head...
Vonnegut in On Writing Science Fiction reflected on Player Piano being labeled sci-fi since it involved machines, "The feeling persists that no one can simultaneously be a respectable writer and understand how a refrigerator works, just as no gentleman wears a brown suit in the city"
> Apparently most people never delved deeper then surface level on how to use these things and everything else went right over their head...
This is really the truth of all things in life.
Plenty of people have a story of managers asking them to do impossible or nonsensical things. It should be unsurprising people will do the same with a machine.
> Most folks seem to expect things to work magically and perform physics breaking feats and it honestly baffles me
This is how it is being marketed and I guess people are silly enough to believe marketing so it's not too surprising