Paul Finney talks with John Diebold on "In Conversation", 1975 October 31 Digital

Paul Finney (managing editor of Businessweek Magazine) interviews John Diebold about the pros and cons of computers and their impact on society. Topics include the impact of computers on how offices function (i.e., word processing) and the impact of automation on offices (including employment of white-collar workers and competition with other countries), whether or not the U.S. is still ahead in computer technology compared to Europeans and Japanese, development of the computer industry and the costs/risks associated with it, the big new developments of distributed processing, archival storage, the “miniaturization” of computers, and the computer revolution, and issues surrounding security/protection of computer information and privacy of information. Diebold also talks about what type of computer society we’re going to have in the year 2000 (including being a “cashless society”, a more knowledge-based society, and have more ability to easily access systems and storage points).