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From: w-tedt@microsoft.UUCP (Ted Timar)
Newsgroups: comp.edu
Subject: Re: Does `computer literacy' destroy `computer rabidness?'
Summary: The 'computer fad' is over
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Date: 20 Oct 88 02:25:29 GMT
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My opinion is that interest in computers kept growing because computers
were the 'in' thing. Now, as the computer fad is gone, only "geeks" are
interested in computers, others only use them when necessary (classwork).

The fad ended, because, suddenly computers were a thing that everyone had,
they lost their novelty appeal. Without this appeal, and with the ability
of everyone to use computers, the feeling that one is able to do more
than others is gone. That feeling was, indirectly, one of the germs causing
the computer bug.

People using computers are no longer considered to be in an elite divine
class. This has eliminated the bug, but also made computers much more
accepted by the general public.

-- 
Ted Timar
These opinions are all my own.
They do not represent the opinions of my employer.