From: utzoo!utcsrgv!utcsstat!geoff
Newsgroups: net.misc
Title: Re: An Interesting Article from Canada
Article-I.D.: utcsstat.129
Posted: Thu May 13 16:48:45 1982
Received: Thu May 13 19:34:18 1982
References: intelqa.119

Does it really matter to what one is addicted?
I don't think that the arrival of a new addiction is cause for alarm.
It isn't as if innocents are being dragged, kicking and screaming,
into dens of computing.  People find addictions that they like.
I think the press tends to see hacking/computer-addiction as
something similar to the `rink rats' of an earlier age or to the Moonies.

As to why women aren't becoming computer-addicted in the same numbers as men,
it probably isn't because men are encouraged in mathematics
which is required to compute (to paraphrase the article) but because
we are *told* that mathematics is required to compute by some.