The computer has brought nothing but problems to the world of the twentieth century.
Chief among the problems has been the dehumanization of society. People are no longer human. Each of us is a series of numbers, numbers to be fed into computers. There are our credit card numbers, our bank account numbers, our social security numbers, our telephone and electricity numbers - the computer number game is endless.
What happens to the computerized numbers? They are distributed to a network of government agencies and business that can use them to invade our privacy. The Internal Revenue Service stores millions of facts about every citizen. Credit agencies exchange information on the spending and saving practices of nearly every American adult. Mailing lists are made available by computers to dozens of organizations, public and private, who bombard us with unwanted mail.
Just let the computer which stores data concerning our accounts, let us say with a credit card company, make an error and it is almost impossible to correct it. The result is an avalanche of bills, threads, and loss of credit standing.
The computer has thrown thousands of people out of work. The gamut of computer- generated unemployed runs from highly skilled technicians to typists.
These are some of the reasons why I feel that the advent of the computer has been detrimental to the quality of our life in the twentieth century.
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