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The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries (Hardcover, New ed)
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The Digital Hand: How Computers Changed the Work of American Financial, Telecommunications, Media, and Entertainment Industries (Hardcover, New ed)
Series: The Digital Hand
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The Digital Hand, Volume 2, is a 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 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 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 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 thisaccount, 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.
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