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"...the people dealing with these new technologies will still be derived from the human stock we're familiar with today."
- Charles Stross
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| Edgar | ||
| Computer that falls in love with a human woman. |
In the film, a love triangle comes to exist between a man, his home computer, and the girl next door.
 (Edgar the lovestruck computer)
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| Technovelgy from Electric Dreams,
by Rusty Lemorande. Published by Virginia Films in 1984 Additional resources -
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Set in San Francisco, a small home computer becomes self-aware when a massive download from a mainframe caused it to overheat, and champagne is poured on top of it to cool it off.
Finally, Edgar accepts that human love is not for him, and he checks out by sending a large current charge through its modem, around the world, and then back to itself.
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