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What kind of people use the Net and what are their activities doing to the country, the world, the culture? It may sound like a parochial issue that women don't much like computers, but they don't, and the issue is a tremendously important one. They're not attracted to this world, certainly not to the extent that men are, and that's one of the reasons why it's such a spiritually impoverished world. Most reasonably sophisticated men are happier in an environment that includes women. One of the problems with the computer society is that not only is it an almost all-male society, but it's a little-boy society, part of an ongoing infantilization of the society over the past half century.
-- David Gelernter, interviewed by John Brockman in Digerati: Encounters with the Cyber Elite
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