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The coming of computer power as a public utility before 1990 is predicted and two scenarios are discussed, entailing respectively either the private use of computer utilities through home terminals or the collective use of local computer facilities in suburbs, town and villages. Headings in the article are as follows: Background and purpose; Previous research and experiments; The computer as isolator: at work, at home, at large; The computer as integrator: knitting work, family, school and society together; Two scenarios; some general assumptions; Computer resource centres -the collective approachregistering information, finding information, remote jobs, local production, services, electronic mail, who works at the centre?, public access, equipment; Home terminals -the individual approach -remote jobs, receiving information, registering information, electronic mail, who works at home?, public access; The pros and cons -drives and obstacles; Computer power to the Swedes. But how?
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