@barrettone 508970 wrote:
so why not?
Well, it’s like this. For most people it isn’t an issue but, if you do creative and innovative stuff with a machine like a computer, you might not want to make that information even theoretically available via a network connection. So you keep the research stuff offline. It’s only an issue if the stuff you like to make is commercially sensitive, or maybe politically or legally sensitive.
There comes a time when everything comes out and is either public suspicion if not public knowledge. But, sometimes it’s better to keep the lid on the pot for a better stew. So to speak.
There’s also the issue of fun getting in the way of creative expression. PCs do absorb an awful lot of attention, and there’s only so many hours in a day. Which is why organising some limits around your own personal (ab)usage of information technology, networks etc, is quite a good idea.
There’s nothing wrong with playing Max Payne or music or videos on the things, but if that’s all that’s done with them, how do you expect anything else to get organised?
