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Computers and Your Child was the UK’s first book to analyse the role of computers in education, cognitve development and pedagogic psychology.

Published by Century in 1983, the book was an international bestseller and appeared in four separate editions that were translated into eleven languages.

In the USA Ticknor & Fields published a specially researched and revised edition which became a No.1 bestseller in the American non-fiction charts.

Excerpts from Computers and Your Child (1983):

"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.

"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."