How Societies Embrace Information Technology; CONTENTS; Preface; 1 Introducing the Big Picture; 2 How Computers Spread Around the World So Fast; 3 How Governments Leverage Information Technologies to Improve Their National Economies; 4 How Managers and Officials Decide What Technology to Use; 5 Adding Up the Results So Far: Do We Now Live in the Information Age?; 6 An Expanding Role for Scientists and Engineers; 7 Looking Down the Road into the Twenty-First Century; 8 Keeping Up: Bibliographic Essay; Index.
This book discusses how computers are shaping contemporary society, with a tight focus on the role of corporations and governments. It is aimed at government policymakers interested in economic development and at private-sector managers who routinely make decisions to acquire and use information technology, now a worldwide expenditure of over.
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