COMPUTERS AND THE QUALITY OF LIFE? Grace C. Hertlein, Professor Department of Computer Science California State University, Chico Chico, CA 95929-410 ABSTRACT Part I of the paper examines the focus of this conference, computers and the quality of life. How can computers enhance the qualifity of life? Are they enhancing life? What does quality of life imply? Requirements for a humane quality of life are briefly detailed here, cognizant that a nurturing environment for mankind requires an equal examination of the interdependent quality needs of the entire biosphere. Part II examines the vast changes that have occurred in high-tech societies during the past decade, focusing on the dominant revolutionary thrusts now visible tendencies that will markedly alter our work patterns, where we work, how we work - if we work at all. In order to understand (and achieve) the potential of a quality of life in a high-tech society, people need to be computer literate - and preferablv, computer fluent, to assess the creative, constructive, beneficial applications That audience is now a broader one: the of computers, junior, senior undergraduate - or the early graduate student from any discipline. That exposure and societal consideration can be achieved
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Computers and the quality of life?
Hertlein, Grace C.
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Association for Computing Machinery – Aug 1, 1990
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