Polesse #06 19 мая 1999

to thinking - Who will win the computer war.

                  Food for Thought


(W) SHADOW



   Digging in old newspapers and magazines, in the folder that 
landed safely on my crappy head, I found an article that refers 
to a greater or lesser extent, to us - spektrumistam. Here she 
is ... 



                Who will win the COMPUTER WAR?



   Generation of forty years still remembers the young people 
with a book or with a serious magazine reading in public 
transport to write to library or in dispute with tovarischami 
of literary news. It was the last generation of a reader. 
Today, the book persistently pushes the computer. 

   What is a computer toy in the hands of a child or a weapon 
in the hands of a professional burglar? In the old, already 
forgotten the times of computers were only a powerful 
calculator, assistant engineer, a scientist. Instead of a huge 
number of bulky cabinets and thundering devices on our 
desktops, and often at home written, there were 2.1 elegant 
apparatus, filled with modern chips, the computing power of 
multiple greater than their tube-semiconductor ancestors. As

science and technology development role of computers in 
business and ekonomike Yes, perhaps, and in all life has 
increased dramatically. Imagine today even our everyday life 
without a computer, unfortunately, is impossible. Computer has 
replaced many of us and food and sleep. 

   Investigation of the Institute of Psychology, Russian 
Academy of Sciences, showed that students in training are 
actively used computer technology far behind in the ability to 
verbal creativity and oral account of their less advanced 
peers. Many PCs are connected to computer networks. The effect 
of these processes will inevitably lead to degradation of the 
individual, until the change of sexual orientation (there were 
such cases!). Computers take up all our spare time. Instead of

reading books or fresh air we sit, staring
eyes on the monitor, themselves not knowing what dangers await 
us. For example, a virus, "666" (the name was the number of 
bytes of adding the virus in an infected file) is capable of 
killing a man by subliminal 25-th frame. (Pr.redaktsii: here

appears to be more suitable phrase "fear has big eyes."
It is not known stories such cases, although we can not exclude 
that formats the hard drive with an annual accounting report - 
not a sight for the faint of heart.) 

   In general, the computer greatly reduces the ability of human
elementary brain to think, but according to experts, is
mutagenic factor, capable of fundamentally wean brain work 
independently. Proved that a computer may well be the cause of 
suicide, various mental abnormalities, reduced immunity and 
fertility functions of the body, not to mention the flawed 
vision and excruciating headaches. (Here truly, What is true is 
true). 

   The computer generates the cruelty of thinking, change the 
real motivation for behavior, emotional substitute for a 
rational perception of the world. Humanity is facing a new, 
totally unexplored the process of changing the morphological 
structures of the cerebral brain functions and higher nervous 
activity. 

   Apparent close relationship between the biochemical 
processes in the body and emotions. Biochemical analysis of 
brain tissue of suicide showed that 95% of them reduced 
serotonin-element responsible for the human self. Research 
scientists at Columbia University showed conclusively that the 
electromagnetic radiation of computer drastically reduces the 
level of serotonin. This explains why the profession of a 
programmer so often appears in the mournful matritologe suicide 
... 

   Influence on the electrical activity of the brain, the mind 
and the subconscious can turn a man into a robot, a machine 
that thinks. Humanity can get into a full computer dependence, 
which is irreversible. 

   A man who left the virtual world of computer games, becoming 
dependent on their kiberpartnera. Consciousness player 
manageable, it can be encoded on specific actions to any 
information in the subconscious. 

   So think for yourself whether to put their lives at risk, 
mindlessly sitting at a computer screen? 

                                       (C) Paulina Holguin, 
"SB".