Every two years the back porch needs staining. My daughter and I tune up the cars and motorcycle a couple times a year, replace headlights, put on new belts and hoses, resolder wiring harnesses. The industrial revolution. I suppose computers are no different on this account. Vacuum them out, clean the drives, maintain and defrag the hard disk, sort files, keep the backups up to date, backup the backups, and on and on.
Networks bring a flood of both useful and useless info to our desktops.
We writers are especially interested in this new market trend of online publishing. You can select by subject area, but there s no way to pick only the interesting comments. With everyone able to upload their works to the network, the Internet begins to resemble publishers slush piles. We need only deal with one side of an individual over the net. And if we don t like what we see, we just pull the plug.