A question of priorities

My daughter, Anne, called for advice yesterday. What a nice surprise to find that even after your children leave the nest they still value your input. Here is her dilemma:
She has an opportunity to pursue a long-time dream to learn how to blow glass. (Where the desire came from I am not sure.) The art is not easily (or inexpensively) learned as it requires a blast furnace and various tools and materials unique to the craft. The course costs $500. The problem is that a whole glass of water recently baptized her laptop so that it now may hum and sputter but will need revival or a replacement. Since Anne is fresh out of college and working at her first “real” job and being initiated into the work-a- day world of bills and premiums and repairs and utilities it comes down to a new computer or glass blowing class.
So, in light of recent posts about the encroaching digital world, what do you think? Should she do the class and live without a computer? Is it possible to live without a computer in this day and age?

more musings on Digital/Analog

I say analog is better but why? Thesis: the digital readout is without context. It is easier to read the digital...but... it only gives you what you want. A limited view. Segments of time unrelated to the continuum. Is this existentialism at it’s fullest, its best or worst? Expediency & efficiency driving the culture. What are the implications?
Would this view be popular with out REWIND? Is the fact that one can find a context a true one? Is the context internalized? Can this digital generation see the relationship that the analog clock (i e past present & future…the passing of time and the anticipation of time in the future) in their head?
BOOKS or MOVIES- Jung’s view of symbols comes into play. Now symbols or icons are a linear visual path (movies, tv, computer etc) but who controls the view? Who is the director of the story? How large is the frame?