European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - May 18, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse Wednesday May 18, 1977 the staffs and stripes Page 11 computer s Impact on life studied Cambridge mass. A worrying about what computers might do to your life in the future so Are students and professors working with them at the Massachusetts Institute of part of a study to determine the Impact of the computer culture on people in general sociologist Sherry turkic is analysing the students and specialists fantasies about computers. In some cases people working wit computers find the systems have an almost hypnotic allure turkic said. They fear their machines Are becoming More and More like is a preoccupation with two spectres. One. The machines May change the human mind. Two they May develop minds of their own. In interviews. Mit people describe the computer As a pres ence in which the line Between men an machine nearly she believes her study will have wide application in determining the Best Way to control and use computers in the future when every Home will have its own. A personal Home computer could become the favorite Christmas gift of the 1980s," Turkle said. Within about i years nearly All american families will have As much computer Power at their disposal As today s computer she said there Are already 50,000 person Al computers in american Homes and a developing computer hobbyist and More we Are going to have this experience of creating something out of our minds with a computer and yet Dis covering it has kind of escaped from our control she warned. There Are programmers who no longer can remember after five or six hours what they have pro she said some scientists have become computer hackers going on lost week end binges of toying with their powerful machines she said. An Mit scientist refused to buy his son computer kit Turkle said because he does t want the boy to be Mit i began to. Notice different terms of talking. Different kinds of relationships with machines than i be Ever been used she said. The is european edition col. Billy e. Spangler. Usa powr Ronnlof Ltd. Larry e. Joyce. Usa Deputy Edillor us Chloel Mert Proctor managing editor Elmer o. Prank production manner Henry s. Epstein. Circulation manager this newspaper l an Eul Hollied Norl ilm pull upon Lor . Armed forces overseas. Tim Slars end stripes is published in conjunction Mriln lie armed forces to Norma lion program of the department of defense. Contents of the Sun my stripes Are not not warily me of Lucial in Oline . Government. Die department of Welense or Ine . European commend. The appearance of display in tins it paper concerning commercial pub Calunia do snot constitute an endorsement b me deportment Oloe lease. Including we military Deo Artmont. Military address the Slars and stripes. Apo on. International Nuvil the stars and stripes. Post Lack ii to 6iwdarmstadt it. Germany. Tel Ici Preli Obliss Iii my Darmstadt in rely i Tele Mil ill. Be York Ollice room me. My Vance St. Hilt 1. Civ w1im and Tele i1m�7. Italy leghorn Mil Darov kit Sam Madrid Civ joint or torrian air ban Turkey Istanbul Civ to Jim. United kingdom. G Yennam common cd military
