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Of prime importance is the forecasting of the price of microprocessors, which are the central components of workstations (see Figure 1~. The forecast runs to 1997.
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An office worker wiB have to take home or have delivered electronically a considerable quantity of information to work with, perhaps hundreds of thousands or millions of characters. The figure shows the cost per character stored for IBM's large disk drives for the last 30 years.
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Little, Inc. times the recording density of existing magnetic storage, and vertical magnetic recording, which stands the little magnets up on their ends and looks at the cross section instead of laying them down flat and looking at the longitudinal section, offering 10 times today's recording density.
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Since we will be using standard communicating microprocessors, we can put in software that enables the devices to do many different things, as we can with a personal computer today. Teleworkers will be provided with the appropriate software to do the company's business, but it will also be possible for them to buy game software, to do word processing, to figure the family finances, and to use expert system software to prepare the {RS Form 1040.
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There has to be a display assembly, either a cathode ray tube with a high voltage supply or a flat panel, and that will remain fairly costly. Finally, a power supply is needed to drive the whole thing, and it contains heavy metal.
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At the local level, however, we have services controlled by the regulators who set the rates for consumer dial service. They will necessarily extract the maximum possible revenue from high-cost local business services to subsidize consumer telephone service, to make up for the lost Tong distance subsidy.
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Computer programmers will, or their companies will do it for them. Journalists aireacly do, and traveling marketing representatives, aided by facilities offered by the local hose]
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