(informal,humorous) The mistaken belief that computers are the answer to every problem.
1966,Management Services, volume 3, page43:
The sheer volume of detail involved in keypunching and verifying or batch totaling comes as a shock to executives infected with "computeritis" who see only the impressive, instantaneous response at the airline ticket counter.
1981, Betty Friedan,The Second Stage, page263:
[…] waiting impatiently for eager Joe Beaver to take his year's paternity leave to counteract that rigid, number-boundcomputeritis he got along with his MBA.
2004, J. L. Berggren, Jonathan M. Borwein, Peter Borwein,Pi: A Source Book, page408:
The existence of such problems [that cannot be solved by computations alone] ought to furnish at least a partial antidote to the disease ofcomputeritis, which seems so rampant today.
