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OverviewIn The third volume of The Digital Hand, James W. Cortada completes his sweeping survey of the effect of computers on American industry, turning finally to the public sector, and examining how computers have fundamentally changed the nature of work in government and education. This book goes far beyond generalizations about the Information Age to the specifics of how industries have functioned, now function, and will function in the years to come. Cortada combines detailed analysis with narrative history to provide a broad overview of computings and telecommunications role in the entire public sector, including federal, state, and local governments, and in K-12 and higher education. Beginning in 1950, when commercial applications of digital technology began to appear, Cortada examines the unique ways different public sector industries adopted new technologies, showcasing the manner in which their innovative applications influenced other industries, as well as the U.S. 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, and the second volume, which examined over a dozen financial, telecommunications, media, and entertainment industries. With this third volume, The Digital Hand trilogy is complete, and forms the most comprehensive and rigorously researched history of computing in business since 1950, providing a detailed picture of what the infrastructure of the Information Age really looks like and how we got there. Managers, historians, economists, and those working in the public sector will appreciate Cortada's analysis of digital technology's many roles and future possibilities. Full Product DetailsAuthor: James W. Cortada (Consultant, Consultant, IBM Institute for Business Value)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.20cm , Length: 24.20cm Weight: 0.809kg ISBN: 9780195165869ISBN 10: 0195165861 Pages: 496 Publication Date: 08 November 2007 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of Contents1: Presence of the Public Sector in the American Economy 2: Digital Applications in Tax and Financial Operations 3: Digital Applications in Defence of the Nation 4: Digital Applications in Law Enforcement 5: Digital Applications in the Federal Government: The Social Security Administration, the Bureau of the Census, and the U.S. Postal Service 6: Role, Presence, and Trends in teh Use of Information Technology by the Federal Government 7: Digital Applications in State, County, and Local Governments 8: Digital Applications in Schools 9: Digital Applications in Higher Education 10: Conclusions: Patterns, Practices, and ImplicationsReviews"""The Digital Hand is must reading for the serious exectuive, politician, or scholar, or for anybody else who, striving to come out on top in our evolving digital world, wants to understand how today's digital world really came to be.""--Anthony G. Oettinger, Professor and Chairman, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University ""The Digital Hand is must reading for the serious exectuive, politician, or scholar, or for anybody else who, striving to come out on top in our evolving digital world, wants to understand how today's digital world really came to be.""--Anthony G. Oettinger, Professor and Chairman, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University" The Digital Hand is must reading for the serious exectuive, politician, or scholar, or for anybody else who, striving to come out on top in our evolving digital world, wants to understand how today's digital world really came to be. --Anthony G. Oettinger, Professor and Chairman, Program on Information Resources Policy, Harvard University<br> Author InformationJames W. Cortada has worked at IBM for more than thirty-two years in a variety of sales, consulting, management, and executive positions in the information processing industry. He is the author of more than two dozen books on the role of information and computing in the American economy. His most recent books were the first two volumes of The Digital Hand, published by Oxford University Press. He holds a Ph.D. in modern history from Florida State University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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