James W. Corada

I was trained as an historian and spent nearly 40 years at IBM in sales and consulting before joining the Charles Babbage Institute at the University of Minnesota as a Senior Research Fellow. I am the author of a dozen books on European history and two dozen on the history of information technologies and another dozen on business management. My interests focus on the role of information in modern societies: use, management, and history. I published a history of the use of information: ALL THE FACTS: A HISTORY OF INFORMATION IN THE UNITED STATES SINCE 1870. I also recently published a book on how whole societies adopted information technologies from the 1940s to the present: THE DIGITAL FLOOD. My most recent books are: a large history of IBM: THE RISE AND FALL AND REINVENTION OF A GLOBAL ICON, INSIDE IBM: LESSONS OF A CORPORATE CULTURE IN ACTION, and BIRTH OF MODERN FACTS: HOW THE INFORMATION REVOLUTION TRANSFORMED ACADEMIC RESEARCH, GOVERNMENTS, AND BUSINESSES.