Funny that you say that. I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings and I have a grudge with the ring(s), because all I'm thinking is that Sauron is a misunderstood

Funny that you say that. I'm re-reading the Lord of the Rings and I have a grudge with the ring(s), because all I'm thinking is that Sauron is a misunderstood magic engineer that managed to fit a miracle of power into the tiny space of the ring. As the story progresses, I muse about the "magic subsystems" and "magic dev-ops", not to mention the amazing "find-my-ring" mental manipulation subsystem which figures so prominently in the story. Tokien sees all of it as "bad, reproachable perversion that must be destroyed," and the Lothlorien elves give up their really pretty land in a heroic sacrifice to destroy the "evil of the ring tech." To put it as a mobile tech example, I suspect that cell-phones cause autism in kids. At the same time, my phone is free of games and social-media apps, and it is incredibly useful to find places, check my bank saldo and buy train tickets, among many other things. But if I were Tolkien, we would be throwing the One Phone into a volcano, and after it all cell-phones would stop working and we would be back to using horses to send envelopes with letters. That way, we wouldn't need to find a way for our kids to play with each other in person instead of obsessing with our "rectangular obsidian mirrors".