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Volume 2, Issue 3
1 March 1984
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Office Technology and People
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Review Article| March 01 1984

COMMENTS ON “WHEN THE COMPUTER TAKES OVER THE OFFICE” BY I.R. HOOS

Richard Beckhard
Richard Beckhard
Alfred P. Sloan School of Management, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 50 Memorial Drive, Cambridge, MA 02139 (U.S.A.)
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Publisher: Emerald Publishing
Online ISSN: 3050-6182
Print ISSN: 0167-5710
© MCB UP Limited
1984
Office Technology and People (1984) 2 (3): 239–241.
https://doi.org/10.1108/eb022635

Ida Hoos' study and update provide a useful and thoughtful contribution to the ongoing debates and discussions as to whether the computer will de‐humanize all of us and society, or whether it will free us to greater things.

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