xanderwife has a classic technological interface issue. instead of changing her behavior to adapt to technology at hand, she ignores technology not adapted to her behavior.
this inevitably results in frustration & kludge.
Technology. Freeing mankind to do what they didn't want since 10,000bc.
Technology is therefore no mere means. Technology is a way of revealing. If we give heed to this, then another whole realm for the essence of technology will open itself up to us. It is the realm of revealing, i.e., of truth.
You wanna talk about disturbing, but what's the word really mean? You say this is "profoundly disturbing", but does not the word 'disturbing' itself suggest that what it describes is profound? Calling something mildly disturbing feels awkward, for instance. Still, it's not the most awkward thing I have seen since nineteen ninety eight when the undertaker threw mankind off hеll in a cell, and plummeted sixteen feet through an announcer's table.