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	Within the next twenty years and beginning within the next five,
the home computer terminal will revolutionize the way we conduct our
personal business as much as the automobile revolutionized the way
we get around.  It will also revolutionize the way information is
distributed in our society, and this will have substantial secondary
effects on politics and education.

	The terminal itself will be rather like those already in use
by computer programmers, airline and other reservation clerks, etc.
and consisting of a typewriter keyboard and a display for text and
pictures.  The revolution will come not from the terminals themselves
but from the information services provided by the computers to which
the terminals are connected and by the access to nation-wide sources
of information.

	The purpose of this paper is to outline the services that
can be provided, identify the revolutionary effects, describe the
necessary technology, and identify the areas in which institutional
changes will be forced by the technology.  (By %2forced%1, I mean
that institutions not making the changes will go out of business
unless they succeed in making new ways of doing business illegal).
I will also treat the privacy issues that the dominant gloomy
ideoloy puts to the fore, but I will put it in its place - which
is small.


INFORMATION SERVICES