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/^t/Computers are even more alluring than television, but they cause a lot of problems as well. First of all, they breed laziness and discontent. People are unwilling to read anything of substantive length requiering concentration. Interactive multimedia books offer seamless sequences of words, images and pictures instead. The sales of computer encyclopedias exceed the sales of printed ones. The computer generation assumes that it is better to calculate, tell the time, work out your holidays and even shop with the aid of computer. Although a computer is a good device for such things, it causes a decline of human-to-human contact because, before computers, people had a stronger sense of community, a greater attachement to their neighbourhoods and families.