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Resnick, Harold Kalman. "The Body Electric: Computers in American Popular Culture," University of Maryland, College Park, 1990. Advisor: Lawrence E. Mintz (18, 20, 2)
Computers may provide the appearance of being both alive and intelligent. Through a textual analysis of newspapers, magazines, literature, and films in which computers and computer-related concepts (such as robots and software) are presented, popular culture is shown to have an extremely diverse occurrence of computers in human roles and identities. computer life may be created from inorganic substances, synthetic DNA, or software. Computer intelligence follows a distinctly human model and rarely exhibits mental attributes, such as telepathy, that are not conventionally human. The producers of popular culture have created computers that can, and sometimes do, become people.
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