Good one.
Here’s a true story. I once had a young woman working for me. One day she was helping me put fresh batteries into some interpretation equipment. She asked, How do these things work? I said, These little units are the receivers, and this unit here is the transmitter. The interpreter speaks into the microphone, the transmitter sends the signal to the receivers, and the people hear what he’s saying though the earpiece. Just like a radio.
She then said, So the interpreter speaks into the microphone and the transmitter converts what he says into another language?
OMG, I guess she watched too much Star Trek or something.
I believe it- we’re in an era where people cannot distinguish technology from magic. I once participated in a focus group on energy policy and one of the people insisted that electricity should be free because it costs nothing to produce.