InTouch Magazine Articles Archive

Issue 11, October 2007

Oh What a Tangled Web

By Lucas Psillakis.

Computers have changed our lives. Projects that took several hours to complete now take just a few, provided you know how to use a PC, provided your system doesn’t crash, provided you don’t forget to save your data and provided you don’t forget wherever it was that you saved it.

Computers are very good at things like finding the square root of pi to a thousand decimal places but they are less good at offering you friendly advice, For example:
“So, do you think I should call her tomorrow or is that too desperate?”
“’So’ did not return any matches. Please search for a different term”.
But computers can be fun. What better way to waste several hours of your life while pretending to work than trawling through cyberspace reading about people’s chewing gum wrapper collections or keeping up to date with the latest news from around the world before spending half an hour trying to recover after a system crash?

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