Digital Flood The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U. S. , Europe, and Asia

Name: Digital Flood The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U. S. , Europe, and Asia
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ISBN: 9780199921553

ISBN-10: 0199921555

ISBN-13: 9780199921553

Edition: 2012

Authors: James W. Cortada

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No technology seems to have spread so fast around the world in such a short period of time as computers. It was a phenomenon that predated the arrival of the Internet and that began to change how businesses, governments, and whole societies functioned. The diffusion of information technologies occurred in dozens of countries all over the world with fascinating similarities and differences.In this book, historian James W. Cortada provides the first world-wide history of how computers appeared and were used in North America, all of Europe, and in most of Asia in barely a half century. He explores the causes of diffusion, arguing that more than the technology itself, other conditions were…

Book details

List price: $107.50
Copyright year: 2012
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/27/2012
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 864
Size: 6.97" wide x 9.53" long x 1.67" tall
Weight: 2.816
Language: English



Preface



How Much Computing Is in The World?



Diffusion of Computing Starts in the United States



West European Deployment Begins: Great Britain, France, and West Germany



Diffusion of Computing in Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden



How Western Europe Embraced Information Technologies



Limits of Diffusion: Computing in the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe



Computing Comes to Japan



IT Tigers of Asia: South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore



China: Embracing IT in Changing Times



India and the Limits of Digital Diffusion



How Asia Embraced Information Technologies



Diffusion of Information Technologies: Results and Implications


Appendices



Preparing a Global Diffusion History: Lessons Learned, Paths Not Taken



Wave One and Wave Two Compared


Notes


Bibliographic Essay


Index