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ABSTRACT
The impact of Electronic Data Processing is amplified by the speed with which it has entered and spread throughout our national life. To those who are working in the computer sciences, these vast and sudden changes may seem natural and expected. But to others, whose only contact is, perhaps, a cardboard check with rectangular holes and the legend, "Do not fold or spindle," EDP is at least strange, if not awesome. Amidst their general feeling that it represents progress and is therefore good, there lurks a residual doubt, a vague and undefined fear of the unknown, the mysterious. As a technology, EDP is neither good nor evil, but rather a resource to be employed wisely for the common good.
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