Where Computers Belong Not

It's a shame for some possession of mine to have an embedded automatic computer where such is wholly
unneeded.  Such a computer represents primarily another point of failure, and also an unneeded point
of control through which the manufacturer may harm me.  The rustic delight of simple objects lies in
their physics, and so easily-predicted behaviour, with all objects that deny such prediction usually
sold or enjoyed on that quality alone.  A computer almost necessarily lacks any such predictability.

I seek out objects and appliances which lack embedded computers for all of my possessions, just as I
seek to avoid plastic wherever food would be concerned.  I read of objects nowadays that have entire
supercomputers with large operating systems embedded within them, and I increasingly look forward to
the coming moment these fail and cause enough harm and death to be made illegal.  Such a complicated
design, generally for such a simple task, is unbelievably short-sighted, stupid, and unmaintainable.

Similarly, I loathe the presence of clocks in so many appliances.  Rarely need I any timer, and when
needed I often need more than one.  The clocks always lose sync with one another, and have different
interfaces which are usually inferior to a real clock or which are unpleasant to use, regardless.  A
dedicated clock and timer are always better.  It's always better to have an object approach an ideal
shape, with no nonsense added to it.  I most often notice these embedded clocks after power outages.

Accepting drudgery in exchange for reprieve makes it not drudgery.  I grind my daily coffee beans by
hand, and never want for an automatic solution, because any small amount of time away from a machine
has become pleasant to me.  No amount of automation is worth being surrounded by computers, at least
not by what pass for computers currently.  The tendency to put a computer in everything feels like a
tendency to put a gasoline-powered motor or even a television in everything; it's absurdly wasteful.

I was wondering lately about what the next great technological advancements, after computers and the
Internet, may be, and how they will shape human thought.  I've read that men throughout history have
made analogies between the human mind and whatever that latest advancement was; they've used clocks,
computers, and many more precision objects, apparently.  I struggled to think of anything; computers
are embedded in rather anything nowadays.  Even in fantasy fiction, everything is a computer lately.

I chose to imagine some medical advancement could be next, and how something as simple in terms as a
few decades added to the human lifespan could have such an important effect on society.  Some manner
of cloning is fascinating too.  Computers would still be involved, but more like how electricity is.

Surely at some point the molten substance will cool and harden, leaving computers with known purpose
and clear restrictions.  Surely at some time computers will be expected to work properly and without
exception.  Surely some day computers will be benign.  I wonder if I'll live to see that day or not.
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