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Phil Gunby

JAMA. 1981;246(2):110.

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There may be a video display terminal (VDT) in the future of many Americans, if not in their present, but controversy continues over possible health effects resulting from regular use of this device.

The Food and Drug Administration has called the VDT a "typewriter-television hybrid." And indeed, the VDT does consist of a keyboard as well as a screen that both looks and operates essentially like a TV set (often using cathode ray tube-generated electrons) except that it is linked to a computer and numbers or letters appear on the screen instead of pictures.

Moreover, the VDT is enjoying increasing use by businesses, newspapers, libraries, financial institutions, government, the transportation industry, and others. The FDA foresees the day when "the technology creeps from the office to the home, where microcomputers help balance the household budget, displaying income and expenses for the family to fret over on a video screen."

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