“When you pro­gram a com­puter, there is a lit­tle piece of your mind and now it’s a lit­tle piece of the computer’s mind. And now you can see it. I mean, the com­puter can be just like you if you pro­gram it to be, your thoughts, your pic­tures, your feel­ings, your ideas, not every­thing, but a lot of things. And you can see the things you think and change them around”

–Deb­o­rah, 13 years old. The Sec­ond Self: Com­put­ers and the Human Spirit

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