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Review of "Computers, Computers, Computers: In Fiction and In Verse, by D. Van Tassel"; Thomas Nelson, Inc

1978; Association for Computing Machinery; Issue: 66 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1145/1045416.1045431

2331-1673

James Mulligan,

ICT in Developing Communities

Dennie Van Tassel has collected 16 short stories about computers. The stories are by famous writers such as Art Buchwald, Frederic Brown, Robert Heinlein, Bob Elliot and Ray Goulding. Sometimes the computer is just a tool as in "2066: Election Day". In this story a computer gives tests to all individuals who want to be president of the U.S. But since the president's job has become more difficult the computer has made the test so difficult that no one person passes the test.