Computers: Family Living

Parents cope with the new tube

"Family life will never be the same," proclaimed Scholastic publishing when it launched Family Computing magazine a year ago. Exactly how computers might change the American family was left to the imagination. Now, however, Scholastic has released what is believed to be the first in-depth study of the social impact of home computers. The results suggest that the new machines can change the way a family lives, but that they will not have the profound impact on American life-styles that the automobile and television had in earlier decades. Says Joseph Giacquinta, the New York University...

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