Extending Your Reach

Series: Adventure of the Mind Series

Duration: 15

Year Published: 1979

Creator: Inc

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: Focuses on special people using personal computers to meet their special needs to emphasize the unique impact of computers on the individual. Shows experimental computer-assisted devices being designed for the handicapped at Johns Hopkins University and poet Edmund Skellings employing a computer to explore and enhance the structure and meaning of his poems. Views school students sharing a remote common data base to demonstrate how personal computers can tap outside knowledge resources via telephone lines.

Complete Record: Focuses on special people using personal computers to meet their special needs to emphasize the unique impact of computers on the individual. Shows experimental computer-assisted devices being designed for the handicapped at Johns Hopkins University and poet Edmund Skellings employing a computer to explore and enhance the structure and meaning of his poems. Views school students sharing a remote common data base to demonstrate how personal computers can tap outside knowledge resources via telephone lines., NOTE: Two (or more) records have been merged together to create this data.