How Evil with a capital E are computers? When I say computers I mean things with screens and microprocessors inside of them. Pretty evil, I’d guess. At least when they’re used incorrectly. I suppose that oculd be true of almost anything. How evil is excess, then? And how prone to excessive use are things with screens and micro processors? 

Would I drink more if I carried a infinitely full flask in my back pocket every single day?

Would I read more if I had a kindlge on me at all times?

Drinking and reading aren’t inherently evil things, but doing them to the detriment of my time with Abby and Roby is about as evil as I think I’ll ever get.

To the end of not carrying around a flask, I intend to turn my office into a prison for computers. I’ve almost certainly written about my plan for a healthful relationship with digital demons here, I suppose I’ve taken to calling it the Golden Age of Sci-Fi approach. In Star Trek and Buck Rogers and The Foundation and Rendezvouz With Rama, and Star Wars, and half a hundred other beloved universes nobody uses the computer the way we do today. They have computers, they might eve have them small enough to fit into their pockets, but they aren’t on them like we are. 

A computer to Captain Kirk is more like a hammer or a reference document. It is taken out and used as necessary, not enjoyed for hours on end in a cozy armchair like a book. The Sci-Fi Captains lost in space go about their daily lives and find themselves in need of consultation, so they consult their super computers, then with that knowledge, go back to their daily lives. 

Unfortunately I am the digital-equivelent of a house framer: I use a hammer for hours on end to make a living, and sadly, you can become addicted to this sort of hammer.

That just means that after work I should lock my hammer in the workshop so I don’t begin to see everything as a nail.