It works in the other direction too, i.e. inwards as well as outwards. I'm continually amazed at how astonishingly vulnerable I am where my computer is concerned. Because - like most people - I place so much of myself in it (artistic creations, practical earning work, vital communication with people I care about, and connections that would otherwise be lost over time & distance) it becomes in a sense an extension of my mind. And if its contents are violated or - God forbid - lost, I would feel diminished in a very real way.

I'm not on a soapbox about the superiority of one system over another, but using (in my case) the two of them in constructive harmony is of great concern to me. Hence the emotion behind the technology.