Computers are not the culprits, contrary to what some of their ‘surfing’ rather than diving and fathoming critics imply: computers owe the lightning speed of their brilliant career to offering their users a better opportunity to do what they always wished to do yet could not for lack of suitable tools. But neither are they the saviours, as their genuflecting enthusiasts are only too eager to aver. This mess is rooted in the way our existential predicament is tackled and deployed by the kind of society we have constructed while being constructed by it. And to extricate ourselves from that mess (if it is conceivable at all) would need more than changing the tools – which, after all, only assist us in doing what we would be trying to do anyway, whether in a cottage-industry fashion or using cutting-edge technology that is all the rage.