[44]. The facts of the Renton, Washington case come from Laurie Garrett’s National Public Radio interview with Laura Moore, which aired August 12, 1982.
[45]. The Slesin quotes come from his article in Columbia Journalism Review, November 1984. The Review correctly says Slesin’s newsletter “has taken no sides in the VDT story while keeping up with all relevant developments.” It appears monthly. The Microwave News’s address is P.O. Box 1799, Grand Central Station, New York, N.Y. 10163. Subscriptions are $200 a year. VDT News, a bimonthly, costs $42 a year.
[46]. The quote from the Cleveland office worker and from the two examples immediately after it come from Warning: Health Hazards for Office Workers, published in 1981 by the Working Women Education Fund, 1224 Huron Rd., Cleveland, Ohio 44115.
[47]. Information on flat-screen displays comes from InfoWorld, May 7, 1984, and other micro magazine articles; the Washington Post of April 29, 1984; George Weiss, director of computer systems studies with Quantum Science Corp., New York; and Kenneth Bosomworth, president of International Resource Development, Inc., a market-research firm in Norwalk, Conn.
[48]. The “people will begin using” quote is from a Weiss interview with USA Today.
[49]. For a reminder of the advantages of LCDs in avoiding a dark office, I’m grateful to Bert Vorchheimer, a corporate communications specialist, who, as a sideline, wrote some farsighted articles on office ergonomics.
[50]. The categories of computer-crime offenses, together with many examples, come from Donn Parker’s Computer Security Management, published in 1981 by Reston Publishing Company, Reston, Virginia. Another book for more information is Parker’s Fighting Computer Crime, published in 1983 by Charles Scribner’s Sons, New York, N.Y.
[51]. The example of the railroad clerk is from a report Parker coauthored for the Justice Department, “Computer Crime: Criminal Justice Resource Manual.”
[52]. All the Ball quotes and paraphrases in this chapter are from Technology Review.
[53]. The H. Michael Snell quotes are from an article he published in Computerworld.