Digital Flood
The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U.S., Europe, and Asia
1st Edition
Published on 9. August 2012
810 pages
978-0-19-992156-0 (ISBN)
Description
In this book, historian James W. Cortada provides the first world-wise history of how computers appeared and spread to over twenty nations in less than six decades. It explores economic, political, social and technological reasons and consequences. It is based on extensive research into primary and secondary sources, and concludes with a discussion of implications for key players in the globalized economy.
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James W. Cortada
The Digital Flood
The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U.S., Europe, and Asia
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09/2012
Oxford University Press Inc
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Content
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- 1. How Much Computing Is in The World?
- 2. Diffusion of Computing Starts in the United States
- 3. West European Deployment Begins: Great Britain, France, and West Germany
- 4. Diffusion of Computing in Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden
- 5. How Western Europe Embraced Information Technologies
- 6. Limits of Diffusion: Computing in the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe
- 7. Computing Comes to Japan
- 8. IT Tigers of Asia: South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore
- 9. China: Embracing IT in Changing Times
- 10. India and the Limits of Digital Diffusion
- 11. How Asia Embraced Information Technologies
- 12. Diffusion of Information Technologies: Results and Implications
- Appendices
- A. Preparing a Global Diffusion History: Lessons Learned, Paths Not Taken
- B. Wave One and Wave Two Compared
- Notes
- Bibliographic Essay
- Index
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