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| Preface | |
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| Introducing the Big Picture | |
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| The presence of information technology | |
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| Megatrends at work | |
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| How societies use technology to shape their world | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast | |
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| Definitions and issues | |
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| Government-supported/private-sector-driven model | |
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| National champion model | |
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| Asian private-sector-driven model | |
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| Planned economy: public policy model | |
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| Industry-driven model | |
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| Corporate diffusion model | |
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| Application diffusion model | |
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| Technology-standards diffusion model | |
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| Patterns, Practices, and implications | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies | |
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| A brief historical reminder | |
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| Economic development in a connected world: the big picture | |
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| How governments use it to encourage economic development | |
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| What motivates governments to encourage their citizens and economics to use it? | |
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| Emerging strategies for the most advanced nations compared to repidly advancing nations | |
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| The special role of labor | |
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| Global recession, twenty-first century style | |
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| Implications for public officials | |
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| Implications for business leaders | |
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| The way forward with policies and practices | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use | |
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| The kinds of decisions made by managers | |
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| Types of justifications | |
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| Managerial practices | |
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| Some possible less effective practices | |
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| Special role of industries | |
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| Path forward | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age? | |
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| Why naming an age is a useful exercise and so hard to do | |
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| What historians can teach us about the process | |
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| The case against the information age | |
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| Can we coexist on the frontiers of a new age? | |
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| Lessons for management and a strategy for change | |
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| Concluding thoughts | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers | |
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| The rise of the computer scientist | |
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| Their future world | |
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| An old role made new | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century | |
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| How to see the future of an industry | |
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| Knowing how information technology is evoluving | |
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| A strategy for managers and public officials | |
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| Special role of the computer science community | |
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| The ultimate trend | |
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| Notes and references | |
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| Keeping Up: Bibliography Essay | |
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| The big picture | |
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| How computers spread around the world | |
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| Governments leveraging it for economic development | |
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| Deciding what technology to use | |
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| Living in the information age | |
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| Role of technologists | |
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| Into the twenty-first century | |
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| Index | |