Mechanical emotion
(N.Z. Press Assn.—Copyright) MONTREAL, April 22. The Sun Life Assurance Company in Canada recently told policy-holders that their letters would be answered by a human being, not a computer.
Shortly afterwards the company received a packet of punch cards, which were translated by their computer. It was a letter of sympathy to their computer from “Computer 001-001-001 in Don Mill, Ontario, expressing sorrow that life for you may not be as full and rewarding as it is for me,” and inviting the lonely machine to become a data-punch pal.
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Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 9
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91Mechanical emotion Press, Volume CXI, Issue 32588, 23 April 1971, Page 9
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