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Daniel Rutter's column, Your Computer Is Not Alive, remains relevant and evergreen.
Also, linking vintage Dan twice in the last week or so is definitely feeling like a two nickels situation, here.
I think viruses, fire, suns, and religions are alive, because they all reproduce.
We use computers to run assembly lines that make more chips, so computers are alive too.