And you likely want to shut down all nonessential background processes, as well as prevent scheduled processes (such as screen savers and virus scanners) from kicking in during benchmarking.

The psychologist Steven Pinker once likened dreams to computer screen savers, saying that it perhaps "doesn't really matter what the content is as long as certain parts of the brain are active."

You might deliver some digital items (posters, screen savers, code) electronically.