Our technologies don't just empower us: they also harass us, and they change us -- for better and for worse. None more than the computer. "Other inventions alter the conditions of human existence," writes Richard Powers in his new novel, "Plowing the Dark." "The computer alters the human. It's our complement, our partner, our vindication. The goal of all the previous stopgap inventions. It builds us an entirely new home." All the more so when the computer is . . . > everywhere. >
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