The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed The Work Of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, And Entertainment Industries артикул 2275e.
The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed The Work Of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, And Entertainment Industries артикул 2275e.

Book DescriptionThe Digital Hand, Volume 2, is an historical survey of how computers and telecommunications have been deployed in over a dozen industries in the financial, telecommunications, media and entertainment sectors over the past half century It is past of a sweeping three-volume description of how management in some forty industries озшлт embraced the computer and changed the American economy Computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in America However it is difficult to grasp the full extent of these changes and their implications for the future of business To begin the long process of understanding the effects of computing in American business, we need to know the history of how computers were first used, by whom and why In this, the second volume of The Digital Hand, James W Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's and telecomunications' role in over a dozen industries, ranging from Old Economy sectors like finance and publishing to New Economy sectors like digital photography and video games He also devotes considerable attention to the rapidly changing media and entertainment industries which are now some of the most technologically advanced in the American economy Beginning in1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the ways different industries adopted new technologies, as well as the ways their innovative applications influenced other industries and the US economy as a whole He builds on the surveys presented in the first volume of the series, which examined sixteen manufacturing, process, transportation, wholesale and retail industries In addition to this account, of computers' impact on industries, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves influenced the nature of digital technology Managers, historians and others interested in the history of modern business will appreciate this historical analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities in an wide array of industries The Digital Hand provides a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there.  Составитель:2005 г 629 стр ISBN 019516587X.