During all the hours spent staring at a monitor, computer users work mostly in solitary confinement. Generally, the only time two or more people gather around the glowing screen is when something is broken. It's sad to think that in the future, text support may offer the only human interaction in the workplace. They're supposed to keep you locked into a groove with only the soft tap dance of fingers across keyboards to distract you. In theory, he who stays in his cube the longest wins.
Management publicly rewards the pastiest programmer who repeatedly puts in eighty hour weeks.
Not only are the people who make computer products expected to do the long and lonely stint, but also the folks who play games, surf the web or just goof around. Computers are conditioning us to work, play and communicate alone. Eventually, people won't leave their houses. Humanity is doomed. Art as a point of entry for social interaction is timeless.