They call it "Driving"

     Everyone knows what "driving" is.
     In the most common usage, "driving" is the act of getting into your car, starting the engine and instructing this form of mechanical media to move you from point A to point B. The car is the hardware (equipment)  and you are the software (instructions). The interface you have to accomplish this is a steering wheel, brakes, gear shift, accelerator, turn signals etc. The mechanical media moves you across the surface of planet earth and you and your passengers witness the scenery as you travel.
      The person "driving" is the person responsible for providing a comfortable, interesting experience for their passengers. As a result, the "driver" is constantly getting comments and judgements from others who are along for the ride. In fact, car culture has invented a host of colloquial names for wanna-be drivers, including "back-seat driver".
      As with cars, most computer users are a single driver at the "wheel" of a single pc. They take the routes they like and control the "scenery" according to their personal goals and individual tastes.                                        
      When computer nerds get together to discuss and review some new computer program, there may be 10 to 15 people who gather together in a room and the presentation is on a screen controlled by a single computer. One person, usually the head nerd "drives" the computer through cyberspace and controls the sequence of  images which appears on the screen. He is responsible for the flow of the "experience" and the nature and quality of the "scenery",  so to speak. If someone else takes control of the computer, they are the new "driver". The interface the "driver" has to the machine is a mouse and keyboard. His "windshield", so to speak, is the computer's monitor. In this scenario, the onlookers are his "passengers".
     You can have a "back-seat driver" at a computer just like you can for a car. Whenever someone is "driving" a car and a passenger says: "Slow down...I want to see that!", it's the same thing as a computer "driver" having someone over their shoulder point to the computer screen and shout: "Click on that! Click on that!"
     The culture of the automobile changed mating habits, methods of buying and selling and man's vision of the world and himself.
     The culture of the computer and the internet is doing the same thing.
     It has been said that cars brought the world to the common man. The very thing can be said for computers.
     So the next time somebody asks you: "Do you want to drive?",  ask them: "Are we taking the car or the computer?"