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The original song piece was done by a German band called Kraftwerk in 1981 and was called "Computer Love" from their album Computer World. The interesting thing about this song is that it has been remade over and over with different styles and different covers. The one we heard in class was a cover done by the group Glass Candy. If we read the lyrics carefully we start to realize the actual predictions of a life with the computer in our lives. It begins with saying, "Another lonely life, stare at the screen...or a data date...", the song was made by an electronic group in 1981, before the whole computer boom and it really is freaky how accurate the song describes our computer culture today. Sort of like the book we are reading by William Gibson, the past seemed to have a good prediction of what was to come in the future. Its important to study how the computer culture started and the impressions back then and how it relates to us now to better understand as a culture who we are and how we connect with each other.