ABSTRACT
Someone once said to me that whenever people find new ways of looking at things, these new ways inevitably meet resistance. In this context, I recall that during the 1980s, the growing popularity of desktop computers engendered fears that these machines would take over our lives and destroy our humanity. Now in the twenty-first century, we use these machines to buy goods, do business, communicate with others, and entertain ourselves. We even use them to write manuscripts for books. Fears that personal computers would destroy our lives have given way to an appreciation of their usefulness.
