From: utzoo!decvax!harpo!utah-cs!lepreau Newsgroups: net.misc Title: Re: Computer substituting for human playmates Article-I.D.: utah-cs.739 Posted: Mon Jun 7 04:03:50 1982 Received: Tue Jun 8 00:48:04 1982 References: eagle.335 I spent a lot of time with another kind of play-alone game in my youth--the book. I don't think it warped me beyond human bounds. One huge difference though-- characters in books, even toddlers' books, are a whole lot more complex and emotional and human than any munching dot or spaceship is. jay lepreau