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Can the Family Survive the New Communications Media? ‘Human Centredness’ and the Challenge of Consumer Technologies

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Human-Centred Systems in the Global Economy

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... which could be set in Tokyo, San Francisco, London, Rio, Delhi, or anywhere else that the international technoculture has taken root ...

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  1. Faculty of Business Administration, Tokyo Keizai University, 1-7 Minami-cho, Kokubunji-Shi, Tokyo 185, Japan

    Yuji Masuda BA, BE, ME

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Smith, D. (1992). Can the Family Survive the New Communications Media? ‘Human Centredness’ and the Challenge of Consumer Technologies. In: Masuda, Y. (eds) Human-Centred Systems in the Global Economy. Artificial Intelligence and Society. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-1967-8_6

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