All too often the computer won't let me do what I want. It gets stuck and leaves me sitting there staring at a screen that won't listen to what I need. If I'm drawing or writing with a pencil or pen, I can make things happen the way I want. If I make a mistake, what I create might be even more imaginative or exciting. But this system won't let me make mistakes.
Most machines are.
They do what they're programmed to do, and they can't deviate one bit. Not at all like human beings. We're flexible, we interpret, we allow for differences. Often we grow and learn new things because of that flexibility, that new interpretation, that openness to differences. Someone in the office saw me struggling and grimacing because the screen wasn't giving me what I was asking.