Trigger Happy

As it solves old problems, information technology always creates new ones. The rise in wide accessibility of nutritional science (or pseudoscience), for example, has fuelled the growth of ‘orthorexia,’ or an unhealthy obsession with eating as healthily as possible. Orthos is the Greek for right or correct: etymologically, ‘orthopaedics’ means ‘correct education’ and ‘orthography’ means ‘correct writing.’ The latest such construction is orthosomnia: an obsession with getting optimum sleep.

Now, sleep being perhaps