I am surrounded by books I hardly ever read, because I can get instant access to information without moving, thanks to my screen. But there are problems: 1) my

I am surrounded by books I hardly ever read, because I can get instant access to information without moving, thanks to my screen. But there are problems: 1) my screen also gives me instant access to an amazing vastness of distractions, and 2) the quality of information in the books around me is often much higher than the quality of information I can get instantly. But because of 1), I don't appreciate 2). I think it would be interesting to experience a screenless office. Obviously I would think more deeply about things. Some of that thought would be "wasted," in the sense that I would be working things out I could simply look up on Stack Overflow. But I think there is a cognitive difference between working something out yourself and copying someone else's answer. In the former case, it feels like you are sort of exercising your own capacity to think, and in the latter case you can remain somewhat disengaged. The former is like walking a path, the latter is like watching a video of someone else walking it. While paper is a renewable resource, this project is more of a thought experiment. Are we happy with the way we have become dependent on screens for computing? Every technology brings some tradeoffs—are we happy with the tradeoffs we are implicitly accepting? If not, what are we willing accept in return for change?