Front page of Fifth Estate in spring 1983 with a sledgehammer smashing a computer screen. Tool of the year: A sledgehammer.

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   In 1983, Time Magazine named the computer its “Machine of the Year.” A few months later, radical Detroit newspaper Fifth Estate responded by naming the sledgehammer its Tool of the Year.

   “Today the computer promises utopia, reassures us that it will usher in freedom and dreams,” they wrote. “Tomorrow we will be chained to it.”