In the sense that I'd rather have Clemens handwritten Huckleberry Finn than the text in a file or files on a flash drive or on platters. There is nothing human about digital files, no intrinsic value to them at all. Once digitized, all value and meaning is lost (listen to vinyl or better yet, a live performance and compare/contrast with your favorite digital format of the same piece). Digital pictures are more precisely described as digital approximations of actual photographs which can be copied, cropped, etc. freely billions of times - thus cheapening them to the point of zero value. I think any honest assessment of private use of computer technology would conclude that it has been a net negative on society. And one from which society may never recover. As always, YMMV.