[antonvs]

Star Trek illustrated the issue nicely in the scene where Scotty, who we should remember is an engineer, tries to talk to a computer mouse in the 20th century: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hShY6xZWVGE

[MarsIronPI]

Except that falls apart 2 seconds later when Scotty shocks the 20th-century engineers by being blazing fast with a keyboard.