They Finally Found Out We Like Our Computers 184
I'm Not There (1956) writes "Sociologist Clifford Nass is talking about how people think of their computers as something like human beings. In one of his experiments, Nass found that people are more willing to 'help' computers when the computer helped them previously: 'When people were then asked to help optimize the screen resolution on a computer where the program had been "helpful," they were much more likely to do so than with the less helpful version.' He also found that people evaluating software's performance were more forgiving if the evaluation was done on the same computer the software was tested on. Nass has recently published the book The Man Who Lied to His Laptop, in which he 'uses our interactions with machines to investigate how human relationships could be improved.'"
Cars and boats? (Score:1, Informative)
people often name a ship or classic car. And insist that it has a personality of its own, and that it must be treated with respect. A computer is even more interactive than a ship, so it seems like it might be even easier to anthropomorphize a computer.
Re:A proposition (Score:1, Informative)
Funny, the ones I meet already do think like computers. I try and get in their pants and it's "Access Denied".
Re:A proposition (Score:2, Informative)
Re:A proposition (Score:3, Informative)
And how exactly have I portrayed most men to be? I said that if you figure out what a guy likes, chances are he's going to keep liking that same thing. That sounds neither uninteresting nor interesting, just "normal".
I'm glad that you can read so much into what I write that you're able to determine what kind of a person I am, though. I think we're making a connection here.
Re:Like I needed to know. (Score:1, Informative)
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