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# It's All the (Computer) Rage
- URL: https://thedailyeudemon.com/679/
- Published: 2005-04-18T15:08:30.000Z
- Updated: 2005-04-18T15:08:30.000Z
- Author: Eric Scheske
- Tags: TWE, #wpChunk

It's a new angle on an old passion: computer rage. In a time when most everyone depends on computers for most everything, anger is mounting when things go wrong. We gotta believe McLuhan would really enjoy this type of phenomenon. [LINK](http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2005/04/17/BAGFDCAE8H1.DTL&ref=thedailyeudemon.com). Excerpt:

> Anger and frustration with computers can even escalate into what one psychologist calls "computer rage."

> "Computer rage is becoming a big problem in our world today," University of Maryland Professor Kent Norman says on a section of his Web site devoted to the subject. "Men and women are taking out their frustrations on the computer; and unfortunately, sometimes misdirecting it to other people."

> Norman, who directs the Laboratory of Automation Psychology and Decision Processes at the university, conducted an online survey last year in which nearly 20 percent of the respondents admitted they'd dropped a computer on the floor out of anger. They described smashing, microwaving and cursing at their computers. One confessed to urinating on his. Another said he had thrown his laptop in a fryer. At least three claimed to have shot at hardware.