Sunday, 13 April 2008

Very true

This quote, in my opinion, sums up exactly why we end up spending hours in front of our computers.

'I feel pressure from a machine that seems itself to be perfect and leaves no one and no other thing but me to blame. It is hard for me to walk away from a not-yet-proofread text on the computer screen. In the electronic writing environment in which making a correction is as simple as striking a delete key, I experience a typographical error not as a mere slip of attention, but as a moral carelessness, for who could be so slovenly as not to take the one or two seconds to make it right? The computer tantalizes me with its holding powerin my case the promise that if I do it right, it will do it right, and right away.'

(TURKLE1993:29-30)

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