In "All Watched Over" by Richard Brautigan and in Passage II by Issac Asimov, the authors established a controlling idea about the co-existence between computers and humans. The author of the second passage shows how people depend on computers in their lives. The authors use literary elements and techniques such as imagery, personification and characterization to convey these ideas.
             In the first passage "All Watched Over" Richard is trying to tell the readers that humans and computers can in fact coexist in harmony. They can watch over each other, they can tell you what's going to happen and what's bad and what's good. He shows that there is hope in the world, for people to accept living with computer technologies. Also eagerness for people to accept it, because if there is no acceptance there is no help in the technologies.
             In the second passage the writer is trying to show people that humans and computers have difficulties coexisting. There is a struggle for domination and control over everything. He believes that computers and humans living in harmony is very difficult. As he told in the story "Joe" the computer is told to find the perfect girl for "Milton" the human. Knowing that this is wrong and illegal the whole process Joe and Milton continue, but one day they get caught. Milton has asked one of the "finalists" to come work for him, but doesn't tell her why. Joe gets arrested and Joe is left to her. Joe has found his true love and that is this woman Charity.
             In conclusion humans and computers have many things in common but at the same time they have many things that are completely different. Computers have their own train of thought and so do humans. We can't change the way a person feels by technology. People think for themselves as has been shown in both passages. You have to live life in harmony and hope ness or else you wont survive in these modern ye
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