akia indication is a turing test. all communication is suspect. that is the pessimistic version. here is the optimistic one. epstein learned the lesson. was that lesson a lot more complicated than trying to start an on-line relationship with someone? that was a dumb idea. , would like to think at least there will have a lot of thinking to do about why it took him four months to realize there was no actual exchange occurring between him. in the future he will be quicker to the real thing and exchange draw. as a result his next confront who hopefully is not only a bonafide who was a pen, but if you're the 11 time zones away. it may have a sauna in this very strange way to thank. so, to help understand some of his anxiety about hemans relationships to computers, it is worth pointing out that up until the 1950's computers used to get the human. so, back before the word computer was a reference to the mechanical digital the vice that proliferates on our desk and in our pants pockets and things, it meant something else which was that it was a job description. computers frequently femal