Abstract
Computing is transforming every aspect of the human experience. As creators of this technology, what obligations do we have to the general public, for whom we make the complex machinery of computing increasingly invisible? The Web extra at http://youtu.be/uuuOfdk0yM0 is an audio podcast of author Grady Booch reading his On Computing column, in which he discusses why it's important for the general public to know something about the technology behind the curtain of computing. © 1984-2012 IEEE.