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