Ida Hoos: pioneer of social implications of IT

Posted by William Heath in People and IT at May 5th, 2007

Ida Hoos, who died last week, first looked almost 50 years ago at the sociological implications of applying IT to the workplace. As she said in 1960: it’s not just what computers can do for us, it’s what computers can do to us.

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