Can you be friends with your coffee maker?
Drie van de onderstaande zinnen (a tot en met f) zijn weggelaten uit alinea’s 1, 2 en 6 (zie 35-1, 35-2 en 35-3 in de tekst).
1. Geef bij elke plaats aan welke zin daar hoort.
Let op: er blijven drie zinnen over.
a Attributing life to an inanimate object is often frowned upon and seen as a sign of immaturity.
b Children are likely to grow up thinking everything is sentient, or at least interactive.
c Marketeers know people are prepared to pay higher prices for contraptions
that talk back to them.
d Personifying products and brands can backfire, however.
e Sometimes we see things as human because we’re lonely.
f The popularity of interactive household devices can be explained by their versatility.