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.