Unfortunately, the affordances of the physical world will likely remain unmatched by the computer, no matter how much computer you throw at the problem.
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This thought brought to by musing about (online) social media being mediated by physical location.
Say you want to hang out with one set of your friendly freaks, so you go to the location you've indicated is your friendly freak spot, and all social media is properly directed both in and out. No risk of leaking or collapsing context.
Then you need to get your public persona out and make some announcements or something, so you go to that public space you like with that old tree. Now only the public facing ins and outs are available.
Then when you're done being social, you go home, and it all turns off, or maybe is set to a very small subset of "family".
Anyway, I was thinking about that, and then I was just like, "Geez, computers are not the solution here. Get a grip."
I say "unfortunately", but I think this is actually okay. This means computers and computer controlled things are only usefully applied to a limited number of problems and may not be the optimal solution in many cases. Just like any other technology! Once you recognize that and identify a situation where a computer is not usefully applied, you can just let it go. You're free to not computer in that case! It's great!