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People do work and stress out a lot because they are greedy and want more money, or somehow feel they "need" more money. In some cases I'm sure they do need it. It is an underlying principle of capitalism, however my point is that when computers were created they were touted as being a way to get more for less and have more time to relax. My point is that they have had the exact opposite effect.
They have contributed, both directly and indirectly, to the increasing "need" or desire to be more productive, to sell more, to have it real-time rather than having to wait. God forbid someone had to " WALK AROUND THE OFFICE" when they could have just sat in a chair and bombard themselves with more radiation while eating cheesy poofs to the tune of "Kyle's Mom is a Biznitch" in D-minor.
I believe it is obvious to every person of any reasonable adult mental competence that computers have definitely revolutionized the entire economy and the jobs in it. That is not the point at all. The point is that they have fallen short of many of the original intentions of their uses through their contribution to aforementioned problems.
I didn't bother addressing the uses of computers in research and to solve otherwise impossible problems because it's immaterial to my point. My point is of the negative effects of computers and the irony of the time-saving tool being a large contributor to people having less time.
Whether the benefits outweigh the detriments is entirely a matter of perspective and opinion. If you feel they help, then they help you. If you are happier now than you used to be, then you are happier. If you feel your quality of life has improved, then your quality of life HAS improved.
But that is not to say that they have improved the quality of life. To say that, we'd all have to agree on what quality of life really means and how it is impacted by the computer. In my opinion, when I look around me, I think the quality of life in America has been slowly eroding, an erosion much assisted by the proliferation of computers.
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