I've asked a lot of people who are crazy about computers just why it is they are so crazy about computers. They will hem and they will haw, but eventually it gets down to this: A computer makes you God.' Steven Levy, now Senior Editor at Newsweek and author of Crypto (Viking), wrote that in 1984 as editor for the games domain in Point Foundation's Whole Earth Software Catalog. A scant three years later, a game developer turned computer users into virtual deities by giving them dominion over a fantasy world.
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