Arguments for a Moratorium on the Construction of a Community Information Utility

Communications of the ACM

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1974, Pages 674-678

  Press, Laurence I ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

community information utilities; public policy; social implications

Indexed keywords

COMMUNITY INFORMATION UTILITY;

INFORMATION SERVICES;

EID: 0016351188     PISSN: 00010782     EISSN: 15577317     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1145/361604.361613     Document Type: Article

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