So I suppose this is a good place to actually seriously consider my idea of technology that hates you, since its in a similar vein.

Right now, all the technology you own seeks to make your life a little bit better (even if it doesn't always succeed). Your computer can entertain you, make work easier, find you the weather, schedule you for the next six months, buy your food, pay your bills, do everything you used to have to do by hand or even on a computer with much more effort, and you can basically do all of it at the click of a mouse.

Okay, cool, awesome. Except that that's boring. Sure my computer works fine, it makes my life better. But I don't always want it to make my life better or easier. I want it to make my life worse. I want technology that hates, because you need hate just as much as you need love.

There's not a great deal of adversity that I need to overcome in my every day life, and I'm not really the better person day in and day out. Why not do something like that? Something simple, doesn't have to be hard, but put it in. At random intervals in the day, your computer locks up, and you have to do something to unlock it. Doesn't matter when. Nothing too inconvenient, nothing like "go write me a paper" but simple things like "solve this math problem" or "repair this part." It locks up until you do 10 jumping jacks.

Technology is a great escape from responsibility, so what if we redesign it all to punish us?