Richard Dalton was a former editor of the '' Whole Earth Software Review''. He was president of Keep/Track Corporation (Falmouth, Massachusetts)when he died of prostate cancer on Oct. 24 2016, age 76. For nine years he was a research affiliate of the

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in Menlo Park, California specializing in emerging technologies and their business and social implications. He was a featured columnist for ''

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'' and ''

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'', and also wrote a column for Byte.com. He has recently spoken at

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, the Groupware Users Exchange, the InterClass European Conference and the Federal Government Group Decision Technology Conference. In the early 1980s, Dalton advocated the use of inexpensive

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computers such as the

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and

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MD-1 for businesses.

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