>>21964841Computers have, without a doubt, made life measurably worse in most aspects
Yes, computers may have automated [insert menial documentation task], they may have made finding information far easier, they may have increased reliability and predictability under certain circumstances, but in return, almost every aspect of life has been wrapped in multiple feet of red tape.
You want to do anything? You have to use a computer. Everything has to be done through an app, or a website, or an answering machine. Everything has to be catalogued. You want to sit at a restaurant? Well, the management computer has to check every table for every reservation. And it's all bound to shit itself one day and require weeks of fixing. Oh, what's that? Your software was outdated? Update and learn it all a-fucking-gain goy.
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This is before the social implications can even be touched, mind you.