[HiTech RedNeck]

This is not nearly so much true of "computers" per se as of the advanced forms of man made media machines that computers have made practical. We wanted alternative environments, well, we got them. The physical makeup of man is still beyond their ken. When it is not, we shall be at the nightmare point envisioned by C. S. Lewis' The Abolition of Man.

[mamelukesabre]

When the cloud comes, and every device has it’s own microcontroller and wireless interface, there will be no distinction between a computer and “man made media machine”.