What are some things that every computer user should learn? What things do you wish every computer user knew? What are some of the biggest benefits that individuals and/or society could reap if computer users learned these things?

Please boost, I honestly want as many serious answers as possible. Feel free to answer variations of the question for different levels of "computer users", such as programmers, office workers who use a computer 4+ hours per day, phone-only users, etc.

@willghatch interfaces influence how you think, be they APIs, programming languages, end-user applications, or anything else.
software is poetry and you should treat it with the same level of suspicion.

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@grainloom I like the way you phrased that. I had never thought to apply the Sapir–Whorf hypothesis to software before, but the way you stated it makes perfect sense.

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