It is not so. A computer hooked up to a hammer can be instructed to hammer correctly, but its effort is not one of self-mastery, and its success does not become a healing power in the world. By claiming to be master of all tools, the computer dares us to contend for our own mastery. At stake is no longer whether we will learn by overcoming the resistance of this or that tool, but whether we will continue growing at all. The foregoing reflection is part of a developing collection called Daily Meditations for the Computer-entranced .
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