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Personal Computers and the Office of the Future
Pages 60-66

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... This system in turn evolved into augmented knowledge workshops ant! eventually into the concept of office automation, a system that was actually demonstrated at the National Computer Conference in 1967.
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From page 61...
... Though widely known, its use remained relatively specialized until the general population involved itself with the introduction of the personal computer. I now see the wave of office automation and personal computers dropping off and another wave coming.
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From page 62...
... For a marginal cost users are getting what they always wanteda highly responsive environment. What is needed is to find some way of combining the advantages that come with corporate controT and the motivation that comes with individual choice.
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... At the corporate level data processing applications will involve general ledgers, personnel, and inventory. For the public new databases are available through services like vicleotex and the source, giving access to the Dow Jones industrial average, the New York Times, ant!
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... Intelligent workstations the personal computers of the future will be used to support this kind of communication network. In diagrammatic form, this network might look like Figure 1.
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... That wave is beginning to rececle. It will be replaced by another wave that has already begun to form- the development of integrated digital systems that more fully support the communication and the sharing of information between people.
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