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Subject: Re: Computer Dialogue #1
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Date: Mon, 24-Mar-86 08:44:49 EST
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In article <743@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
>Dear Charles and Peter,
>
>Please understand that I wrote Computer Dialogues #1 and #2 as "flights
>of fancy" to imagine some of the problems that might arise when
>self-programming computers begin to interact with each other.  I gave
>the computers some anthropomorphic emotions, thinly disguised as
>diagnostic messages.  My goal was to bridge the gulf between those who
>love machines and those who dread them.  I am afraid that I only succeeded
>in opening some wounds, and I regret that my work has led to such
>expressions of animosity.

Chas & Pete:

I thought the computer dialog was quite amusing as a look into
a possible future occurence between self aware computers.

Try as I might, a couldn`t see anything to raise my temperature
or incur my ire.

Oh well, I guess some people will bitch about anything.

Have a nice day (Unless you don`t want to - keep cool!)

Hank (The Shadow) Robertson