As the amount of digital information that humans are required to process increases by an order of magnitude, we’ll likely realize that more will be required of us as computer users than passively sitting and acting. Welcome to The Age of Active Computing™, where you develop a physical and - more importantly - emotional connection to your computer. Navigating higher order sets of data as a human requires things we “don’t fully understand,” is what people always say, like intuition and emotionality. Processors embedded in your nervous system may some day warn you that a negative swarm of file-packets and allied semiotic memes™ was headed in your direction. Without knowing it, you’d cross the street or avoid that entire [community of meaning] altogether.

Hush, your computer knows you’re scared. It’s trying to carress you, but you only ever tickle it with the tips of your cold fingers, which it tries to warm up for you by emitting heat…