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Computer Literacy* Tests: Are You Human? By Lev Grossman Every web surfer, in the course of his or her browsing, has been forced to stop and perform this weird* little task: look at a picture of some wavy*, ghostly*, distorted letters and type them into a box. Sometimes you flub* it and have to retype the letters, but otherwise you dont think about it much. That string* of letters has a name; its called a CAPTCHA. And its a test. By correctly transcribing it, you have proved to the computer that you are a human being. This electronic hoop* you have to jump through was invented in 2000 by a te