Good. light damage to front cover.

Paperback. Signed by Author dated 12-16-1982

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Computers and the Future
Take a second look at your pocket calculator or digital watch. These simple devices are the beginning of what promises —or threatens — to be the next industrial revolution; it will be based on microelectronics.
Within the next decade, roughly half of today's jobs will change drastically, or disappear altogether: robots will take over assembly line jobs from blue collar workers; microelectronics devices will perform many white collar duties as well. New technology will usher in the miracles of bionics; it will increase communications and, possibly, make real every man's dream of more leisure than labor. At the same time, microelectronics will open new horizons for computer crime.
Will the coming years prove to be a dream or a nightmare? Understanding the facts of microelectronics' advancements could make the difference. Colorado Springs Sun: ". . . a good explanatory text for the layman who wants a basic understanding of how all the microelectronic devices that surround each of us work"
Infoworld: ". . entertaining and persuasive . . .
Personal Computing: "Next to your user's manual, RW could tell you more about the power and future of your microcomputer than anything published to date. With its low price and readable text, this little book should be required reading from grammar school on up."
Publishers Weekly: "Osborne, as guru of the micro-electronics industry, is perhaps one of the few experts in the country who can make (these) predictions without being called an alarmist."