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Computer programmers have also already made “bots,” or machines that can present themselves as people in the virtual world. In “Ghosts in the Machine,” Sherry Turkle (1995) analyzed the effects of using computers on people. She argues that because computers present a whole new flexible virtual world and perform different roles and activities, they can behave more like humans than machines, while people, due to their constant interaction with machines, are turning into machines.