I would ask my computer to find me a perfect husband. I would tell it to tell me where to find the prettiest clothes and tell me where to get my hair done. Tell me where the most famous restaurant is in the world. Then I would meet my future husband, get married, have children -- two, named Ben and Angie -- then I would get a divorce and raise my children on my own till they're grown. And then it's just me and my computer. All alone again.Don't know the name of the schoolgirl author of this; but it's great.
Friday, 9 May 2014
A 1980 Schoolgirl Imagines Her Relationship With Her Computer in the Year 2000
From Nancy Krienberg and Elizabeth K Stage's 'Girls Just Want To Have Computers', in Richard Rhodes (ed) Visions of Technology (New York: Simon and Schuster 2000), 336:
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Why is this not already a film? It would be brilliant. And terrible. But brilliant.
ReplyDeleteI have a hard time believing that she would not trade-in her computer at some point for bringing her a less-than-perfect husband.
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