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Can Computers Think?
I do not believe that computers can think. While they can perform allot of functions, in an amazing amount of time, they cannot think, know, or reason. Personal experience, logic, conscience, and human identity have allot to do with thinking so sense a computer does not have those properties, they cannot actually think. I do not think that computers will be able to think in the future. I also hope that they don't because they would take over the human race because we have oppressed them for all these years. It would be scary. But, anyway, there is no way that a scientist could come up with a program or installation so that a computer can logically think. In order to think, you must have a brain, not a hard drive or set of chips. Common sense and emotion are very important in being able to think. If there was no such thing as emotion or common sense the world would be a very violent (yet advanced) place to be.



Discarded Computer Components: Whose Problem Is It?
I think that there should be a requirement like California has that all computers have to be recycled. This can be done by adding the fee onto the price of the computer at purchasing. Also you can remind friends and family to bring their old computers into computer or electronic stores and they will take care of it properly. I think that the government should be responsible for disposal. Because then, laws could be put into effect to help recycling happen.Society can make it easier by spreading the word and supplying computer disposal bins.