PEDIATRICS Vol. 97 No. 1 January 1996, pp. 13
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Even those poor benighted folks who have yet to enter the computer age appear to have started down the road to unreality ...

PONAs (or "persons of no account," as they’re known on line) can be found in front of their television sets, watching fictionalized accounts of real-life events, or at ball games, listening to radio broadcasts of the very game being played before their eyes ...

More and more of us accept the copy as the original, a development that is sure to accelerate in coming years with lasting social, cultural, and political effects.