Speech Phil Agre - OECD Forum on Electronic Commerce Here is the problem. We all know that computers are complex beasts. But for all of their internal complexity, computers are just as complicated in their embedding in the outside world. Yet the complexity of this embedding is largely invisible to the people who design computers, and to the people who make a living promoting their use. Call it first-world myopia: taking for granted the sprawling background of infrastructure, institutions, and information that make modern societies possible.