The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Manufacturing, Transportation, and Retail Industries - Rilegato

Cortada, James W.

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ISBN 10: 0195165888 ISBN 13: 9780195165883

Casa editrice: OUP USA, 2004

Riassunto

In The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computing's role in sixteen industries, accounting for nearly half of the U.S. economy. Beginning in 1950, 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 U.S economy. In addition, to this account of computers' impact on industry, Cortada also demonstrates how industries themselves influenced the nature of digital technology. Managers, economists, and anyone interested in the history of modern business will appreciate this historical analysis of digital technology's many roles and its future possibilities in a wide array of industries. A detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there, The Digital Hand is a sweeping survey of how computers transformed the American economy.

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This book is by any standard an outstanding contribution to the field. . . there is a huge value in his richly detailed narrative. This set of books will be the standard source on demand-side computing for perhaps a generation. (Martin Campbell-Kelly, Business History Review)

This book is by any standard an outstanding contribution to the field. . . there is a huge value in his richly detailed narrative. This set of books will be the standard source on demand-side computing for perhaps a generation. (Martin Campbell-Kelly, Business History ReviewCortada has perhaps the deepest understandind of the growing and changing impact of computers in societ?)

Contenuti

• Preface
• 1: Arrival of Digital Technologies and Their Applications
• 2: Digitizing the American Economy
• 3: Presence and Role of Manufacturing Industries in the American Economy
• 4: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Manufacturing Industries
• 5: Patterns and Practices in Three Traditional Manufacturing Industries: Automotive, Steel and Aerospace
• 6: Patterns and Practices in Three Process Industries: Petroleum, Chemical, and Pharmaceuticals
• 7: Business Practices and Digital Applications in Information Age Manufacturing Industries: Semiconductors, Hard Drives, and Software
• 8: Business Practices and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Transportation Industries: Trains and Trucks
• 9: Presence of Wholesale and Retail Industries in the American Economy
• 10: Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Wholesale and Retail Industries
• 11: Patterns and Practices in Three Retail Industries: Grocery, Apparel, e-Tailing
• 12: Conclusion: How Computers Changed the American Economy
• Appendix A: How to Study the Role of Computing by Industry
• Appendix B: The Universal Product Code (UPC), Optical Character Recognition (OCR), and Point-of-Sale (POS)
• Bibliographic Essay

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: OUP USA
• Data di pubblicazione: 2004
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0195165888
• ISBN 13: 9780195165883
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 512
• Contatto del produttore: Messaggerie Libri; ufficio.anagrafiche@meli.it; ; Via Verdi, 8.; Assago Milano; 20090; Italia