My children are forced to bang on the computer all day, but nobody tells them or their parents anything about the carpal tunnel syndrome and other afflictions. I've been seriously involved in this unnatural act for only 20 years, and I already feel some consequences. I'm sure this will get more attention as time goes by, if only for fear of lawsuits, but right now it looks to me like conscious imposition of unhealthy practices on people. It allows the Dean to say that the College is way up in front in the use of technology. And it allows the Stanford administration to say they respond to new market demands.
Technology is good where technology is unavoidable.
And a spreadsheet is much better than an expense book kept by hand. There is usually some price attached, but it is not inordinate. Technology is bad where it isn't needed. If it's a book that doesn't rely on hyperlinks or animated graphics, its modern implementation will be worse than the original. And a face to face meeting, if it can be arranged, is clearly better than a video conference call.