Computers Invite a Tangled Web of Complications For that matter, what do I know? If I were Web savvy, I could find out. And easy access to facts is one more terrible thing about writing with computers. There's nothing worse than getting a hard fact stuck in the Royal portable (or IBM Selectric) when you're trying to pound out truths. Imagine "Gulliver's Travels" if Jonathan Swift had known what was on the other side of the world.