Abstract
It is only to be expected that the rise to prominence of the computer over the last four decades has had some effect on the lives of people in our society. Technology is the driving force of culture, and the computer is the acme of contemporary technology. Its effects have, slowly but surely, been emerging from its original impact in business use into a much wider spectrum of public and private life, and we may be sure that this is an on-going process. The next chapter discusses what we can foresee for the future; in this chapter we examine the current evidence for the effects of computers in the main areas of twentieth-century life:
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employment;
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education;
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civil rights;
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leisure.
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Suggestions for Further Reading
Child, J. (1986). Technology and Work (Blackwell).
Careers Research and Advisory Centre (published annually). Hobson’s Computing Casebook (CRAC Cambridge).
National Computing Centre, (1982). Working With Computers.
Forrester, T. (ed.) (1985). The Information Technology Revolution (Blackwell)
Evans, N. (1986). The Future of Microcomputers in Education (Macmillan).
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Wright, G. (1988). Computers and people. In: Mastering Computers. Macmillan Master Series. Palgrave, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-09944-3_10
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