Umfang:
Online-Ressource (xii, 380 p., [12] p. of plates)
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ill., maps
ISBN:
128047193X
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9781280471933
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9780195352009
Inhalt:
This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the ""information highway"" as early as the 1700's, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastructure to make such connectivity possible. This book explores what the deployment of these technologies says about American society. The editors assembled a group of contributors who are experts in their particular fields and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cro
Inhalt:
Contents -- Contributors -- 1 The Information Age in Historical Perspective: Introduction -- 2 Early American Origins of the Information Age -- 3 Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age -- 4 Business Use of Information and Technology during the Industrial Age -- 5 The Threshold of the Information Age: Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation -- 6 Progenitors of the Information Age: The Development of Chips and Computers -- 7 Information Technology Management Since 1960 -- 8 Computers in U.S. Households Since 1977
Inhalt:
9 The Information Age: Continuities and Differences -- Notes -- Bibliographic Essay on the Role of Information in the Transformation of the United States -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
Anmerkung:
Includes bibliographical references (p. 301-361) and index
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 1280471832
Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780195127010
Weitere Ausg.:
Print version Chandler, Alfred D. Jr A Nation Transformed by Information : How Information Has Shaped the United States from Colonial Times to the Present Cary : Oxford University Press,c2000
Sprache:
Englisch
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