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The Next RRE Project: Computers and My Family

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It's time to collect the views of RRE readers on another topic. You're invited to write a few informal paragraphs about the role that computers have played in your family. You can include stories, fears, reflections, observations, disputes, changed relationships, good things, bad things -- whatever is real in your experience that you'd like to share with the community. Send me what you've written; I'll gather the responses and make them available in the RRE Archive. If they're not too long I'll send them to the whole list as well. Maybe the result will help everyone to think about what's happening in their own family, and in families generally, as networked computing technology becomes more pervasive.

Interpret "computers" and "my family" as broadly as you like. You might want to include computers at home or at work, or media representations of computers or their impact on work schedules or the labor market; and by all means include your whole extended family (parents, kids, spouse, distant relatives, and other significant personal relationships that feel like family to you). Don't worry whether your family is typical or normal or average. And no abstract generalizations about families -- draw on the particulars of your own experience.

Don't worry about writing style. I'll edit anything embarrassing. I may omit some messages from the collection altogether, but not capriciously; you needn't worry that you're being judged by rules I haven't told you about. Just a few paragraphs -- pick one major point and spell it out with some concrete detail.

When the messages appear on the list, they'll be in one big file with a note at the top stating that you retain copyright to your message but that anybody can forward the whole file electronically to anyone for any noncommercial purpose. The messages won't be anonymous; they'll include your name and e-mail address.

I'll collect messages until February 5th.

Thanks very much.

Phil ```

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