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Letter: Virtual swat

Published 14 March 2012

From Suzy Chapman

I realised I had become as much “at one with the machine” as Pam Lunn treating a real book like an e-book reader (11 February, p 33) when the futility of attempting to nudge a fly off the edge of my laptop screen by poking it with my on-screen mouse pointer dawned on me.

Lytchett Matravers, Dorset, UK

Issue no. 2856 published 17 March 2012

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