White, Mary Alice
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(1920-2000) US psychologist, academic, and Director of the Laboratory for the Psychological Study of Telecommunication at Columbia University, in which capacity she called as early as 1981 for the educational use of Computers in a world where print learning was becoming obsolete. She was the author of a modestly fictionalized Utopia, The Land of the Possible: A Report on the First Visit to Prire (1979), a pacific land where Technology operates under quasi-pastoral restraints in order to maintain Ecological equilibrium through a small-is-beautiful regimen. [JC]
Mary Alice White
born 1920
died Salisbury, Connecticut: December 2000
works
- The Land of the Possible: A Report on the First Visit to Prire (New York: Warner Books, 1979) [pb/Jenny Bragg]
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