Ray Hammond
Computers and Your Child
Computers and Your Child was the UK’s first book to analyse the role of computers in education.
Published by Century in 1983, the book was an international best seller and appeared in four separate editions that were translated into eleven languages.
Quotes from Computers and Your Child:
"By the time our children are adults, computers will control many aspects of daily life. Few tasks will be undertaken without their assistance, and little that is worthwhile in industry, commerce, leisure and even art will be achieved by us alone. As our children grow into middle age, computers may well be providing sufficient wealth to have solved many of the world's major problems: disease, ignorance and war."
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"Because the impact of the computer threatens to be so far-reaching, it is impossible to predict what sort of society will develop. Some experts proclaim the dawning of a new slave-based society in which food and physical comforts are produced by cheap powerful computer slaves. They suggest that computer laser-beam defense systems will be so advanced that the possibility of a pre-emptive nuclear strike will have become an impossibility, and thus the stalemate global peace which has existed since 1945 may continue in perpetuity. They suggest that we will spend a lifespan of 200 years or so at leisure, in the comfort of a world in which all our needs are met by machines."
Computers and Your Child, Ray Hammond, 1983
What Reviewers said about Computers and Your Child
‘A plain language guide to computers and their uses at home and at school…has avoided jargon in a determined attempt to demystify the subject.’ The Guardian.
‘Any adult wanting to get to grips with computing would be well advised to get this book.’ Educational Computing
‘The book is well written, imaginatively illustrated and represents the best kind of British educational publishing.’ Weekend Australian.
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