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d at that--I just want to look ahead and
see what the problems could be.
Now one very good thing about making love to a computer
is that no one can get pregnant. That's good for computers,
but it's especially good for women. But what with constant
electronic advances, even this could change in a few decades.
What if a machine learned how to make a woman pregnant? As
far-fetched as this may sound, with the growing merger
between DNA research and electronics, something like this
could just happen. It could even go the other way, with a
human being impregnating a computer in some way, though even
I can't quite see how right now. Still, if it can be
conceived (wrong word, I suppose), it can happen. What if it
could be determined in both cases that neither the girl nor
the computer wanted to get pregnant? Would abortion be
available for either the girl or the computer? What position
are the courts likely to take in such cases?
Since I'm trying to cover all possible results, nobody
should forget what a menace computer viruses are today. And
nobody should forget all the trouble we're having with human
viruses either. Is it possible, once again remembering DNA
and computer research, that these two viruses could just get
together somewhere down the road and unite into a
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