&gt; If you aren&#x27;t interested in &quot;computer parts and tech magazines&quot; then what exactly is it about computing that makes you want to do it?<p>If that&#x27;s not rhetorical, I&#x27;m uninterested in &quot;computer parts and tech magazines&quot;. They&#x27;re just corporate blahblahblah selling technojunk. But I have zillions of books on computing. More interesting to read about the computing roads society didn&#x27;t take.<p>Even with books, I probaby don&#x27;t empathize with most readers... tech isn&#x27;t a smorgasbord I wish to shovel down indiscriminately. Most of it tastes like crap; some is entrancing.<p>Anyway, most computing is bureaucratic rather than poetic, as anthropologist Graeber puts it. On social media, people constantly fill out forms. (<a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;of-flying-cars-and-the-declining-rate-of-profit" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;thebaffler.com&#x2F;salvos&#x2F;of-flying-cars-and-the-declinin...</a>)<p>And of course, ends matter if tech isn&#x27;t just masturbation. Why ultimately care about computing? What about a universe full of other intellectual pursuits?