The Digital Hand, Vol 3: How Computers Changed the Work of American Public Sector Industries - Hardcover

Cortada, James W.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0195165861 ISBN 13: 9780195165869

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2007

Synopsis

The third volume of The Digital Hand describes how computers were used in all of the American public sector industries over the past half-century, in order to determine what were the critical uses of computing technologies, how these technologies came into these industries, and how they were changed by it. Cortada claims that computing profoundly changed the nature of work in these public sector industries, creating the bedrock of the Information Age.

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About the Author

James 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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0195165861
• ISBN 13: 9780195165869
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 496