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I feel like these people were trying to map uncharted waters in a way. There are both the technological and physical viruses that are trying to be understood, and all the while, the public watches. So everyone is hyperaware of these viruses as experts try to learn more. Here's this new, awesome technology that was just made public not too long ago, and now the public has to worry about the spread of technological viruses... and physical viruses, too. What did Americans learn about sex and computers in this time period? Always use protection. --Stephanie Lipscomb | I feel like these people were trying to map uncharted waters in a way. There are both the technological and physical viruses that are trying to be understood, and all the while, the public watches. So everyone is hyperaware of these viruses as experts try to learn more. Here's this new, awesome technology that was just made public not too long ago, and now the public has to worry about the spread of technological viruses... and physical viruses, too. What did Americans learn about sex and computers in this time period? Always use protection. --Stephanie Lipscomb | ||
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| + | I found the connection when describing computer viruses, to aids to be interesting. I think the analogy worked well. I personally like to think of computer viruses as being meaningless. When my computer is affected by one it cause nothing but inconvenience. However, the author does a good job of pointing out the possible motives to creating computer viruses. The creation of a computer virus is completely motivated by the intentions of the creator. I was also interested to learn about the glamorization of the hacker. I believe this is true. Many of the popular movies released over the last few years have had a hacker character. -Kathleen Mead | ||
