Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site tekchips.UUCP Path: utzoo!linus!decvax!tektronix!tekchips!wm From: wm@tekchips.UUCP Newsgroups: net.ai Subject: comovie star computers Message-ID: <245@tekchips.UUCP> Date: Fri, 29-Jul-83 17:49:13 EDT Article-I.D.: tekchips.245 Posted: Fri Jul 29 17:49:13 1983 Date-Received: Mon, 1-Aug-83 06:17:28 EDT Organization: Tektronix, Beaverton OR Lines: 23 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