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Summary
Gathered from twenty leading authorities in computer science, the chapters of The Computer Agerange across a broad spectrum of topics-from technological trends and needs to social questions, such as the changing economics of information, ownership principles, regulation, the range of potential computer uses, from science and business to the home.
Table of Contents
| Series Foreword | p. viii |
| Preface | p. ix |
| Introduction | p. xi |
| Prospects for the Individual | |
| The Computer in the Home | p. 3 |
| The Return of the Sunday Painter | p. 21 |
| Individualized Automation | p. 38 |
| Toward Convivial Computing | p. 56 |
| Computers and Learning | p. 73 |
| Computers and Government | p. 87 |
| Trends in Traditional Computer Uses | |
| The Use of Computers for Business Functions | p. 129 |
| Scientific Use of Computers | p. 146 |
| Socioeconomic Effects and Expectations | |
| The Social Framework of the Information Society | p. 163 |
| The Consequences of Computers for Centralization and Decentralization | p. 212 |
| The Computer and World Affairs | p. 229 |
| Regulation and Computer Services | p. 254 |
| Computers and Modeling | p. 285 |
| The Economics of Information | p. 306 |
| Trends in the Underlying Technologies | |
| Hardware Prospects and Limitations | p. 321 |
| Computers and Communications | p. 338 |
| Sophisticated Software: The Road to Science and Utopia | p. 367 |
| Computer Science and the Representation of Knowledge | p. 392 |
| Current Research Frontiers in Computer Science | p. 422 |
| Critiques | |
| Once More: The Computer Revolution | p. 439 |
| A Reply to Weizenbaum | p. 459 |
| Another Reply to Weizenbaum | p. 463 |
| Contributors | p. 465 |
| Index | p. 467 |
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