science fiction society where the only people who can make and use computers are an order of monks, not to consolidate power or because its seen as dangerous but because the things businesspeople do with them is so annoying
in my conception the monks have to take a vow of poverty and mostly use the computers to make weird glitch art and noise
I'm thinking that the monks meticulously maintain elaborate fan wikis for all cultural artifacts, and make their living from donations from pilgrims who come to ask obscure lore questions about Star Trek and wealthy patrons who commission fanvids. which are of course pressed to VHS because no computer-based players exist outside of monasteries
"But father, why do the laymen use the VHS when we have such high quality format, like the Bluray?"
"Because brother, in the olden days when the processor ran wild in the hands of the laymen many a horror was built. Worst among these was a technology that rendered even the highest quality video formats null. This was known as "motion smoothing" and was the bane of many a cinephile. In our more enlightened times the layman is constrained, rightly, to analogue formats such as film projection and VHS, and all are happier for the grain and scanlines upon their screens. We of the order maintain the old Ultra HD formats only to study the great classics in utmost detail, such as Patlabor II"
