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From: wm@tekchips.UUCP
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Subject: comovie star computers
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Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 17:49:13 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 29 17:49:13 1983
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Re: what bothers me about how computers are portrayed on tv.

	Shouldn't this be on net.movies or net.tv?

But since you asked ...

The only thing I hate is how movies and tv always anthropomorphize
computers.  Symptoms of this are:
	- computers that have personalities.
	- computers that when you give them a contradiction, they
	  throw (the computer equivalent of) a temper tantrum, and
	  blow themselves up.
	- computers that "grow" because a human gave them some new
	  truth or quest or something.
	- computers that are the "baby" of some childish scientist,
	  but the computer gets out of hand.

I notice that these things only happen to "big" computers.  I
guess people aren't afraid of Trash-80's.  (If they only knew...)

				Wm Leler
				wm.tektronix@Rand-relay