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The Information technology revolution / edited and introduced by Tom Forester

1st MIT Press ed

Cambridge, Mass : MIT Press, 1985

Online-Ressource (xvii, 674 p) : ill

Englisch

The anatomy of computing / John HaltonSoftware : the new driving force / Business Week

Chips : the US versus Japan / Charles H. Ferguson

The race to build a supercomputer / William D. Marbach et al.

Land of the rising fifth generation / Edward Feigenbaum and Pamela McCorduck

The myths of artificial intelligence / Joe Weizenbaum

The social impact of thinking machines / Margaret A. Boden

Evolution of the intelligent network / John S. Mayo

Telecommunications liberalization / Business Week

The magic of cellular radio / Duane L. Huff

The impact of cable / Robert D. Kahn and Martin L. Ernst

The videotex revolution / Martin Mayer

Personal computers / Hoo-min D. Toong and Amar Gupta

The psychology of personal computers / Sherry Turkle

Teleworking from home / Jack Nilles

Second thoughts on moving the office home / William L. Renfro

Here come the microkids / Frederic Golden

Computers for children / Seymour Papert

Educational and social implications / Christopher Dede

Computers in manufacturing / C.A. Hudson

Industrial robots on the line / Robert Ayres and Steve Miller

Flexible manufacturing systems / Gene Bylinsky with Alicia Hills Moore

The mechanization of office work / Vincent E. Giuliano

The automated office : myth versus reality / A. Richard Immel

Personal computers invade offices / Business Week

Electronics in commerce / Martin L. Ernst

New technology in banking and shopping / John Marti and Anthony Zeilinger

Micros in medicine / James D. Meindl

Employment : the quantity of work. Automation is good for us / Patrick Jenkin

Job losses now, maybe some later / Tim Brady and Sonia Liff

High tech is low on jobs / Business Week

Women : the vulnerable group / Diane Werneke

The quality of employment in services / John Child et al.

The politics of technical change / Barry Wilkinson

Using the new technology / David A. Buchanan

Robots at work / Fred K. Foulkes and Jeffrey L. Hirsch

Chips and crisps : labor faces a crunch / Bernard Leach and John Shutt

The making of the Metro / Paul Willman and Graham Winch

New technology and the unions / Roy Moore and Hugo Levie

Computer crime / Leslie D. Ball

Data protection / David Burnham

Electronic politics / Richard M. Neustadt

Information technology and the third world / Juan Rada

"Smart" weapons / William J. Perry and Cynthia A. Roberts

Long waves of economic development / Chris Freeman

Computopia / Yoneji Masuda

A new industrial revolution? / Howard Rosenbrock et al.

Some questions for the information society / Michael Marien.

Includes bibliographies and index

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LOC-SH: Information technology ; Computers ; Computers and civilization

Computers and civilization ; Computers ; Information technology

"If the automobile and airplane business had developed like the computer business, a Rolls Royce would cost $2.75 and would run for 3 million miles on one gallon of gas. And a Boeing 767 would cost just $500 and would circle the globe in 20 minutes on five gallons of gas." Tom Forester's comparison points up the dramatic reduction in the cost of computing and this collection of essays he has assembled unfolds the equally dramatic changes that the revolution in electronics, computing, and telecommunications has brought about in the way we live and work-and maybe even think.The Information Technology Revolution emphasizes actual case studies and much of the material has been written by computer engineers in the front line of technological change. Extensive chapters deal with the revolution in telecommunications, artificial intelligence and the "fifth generation" of supercomputers, the rise of the personal computer and the use of information technology in schools, factories, offices, banks, shops, and hospitals.Among the social issues discussed are computer crime, privacy, the impact of new technology on women, the Third World, 'smart' weapons, and the future of work itself. A final section of the book assesses the extent to which this revolution is transforming Western society.The Information Technology Revolution is a sequel to Forester's edited collection The Microelectronics Revolution (MIT Press paperback, 1980). It contains entirely new material published between 1980 and 1984. Chapters are presented as in the earlier book: an introductory article is usually followed by either detailed case studies or pieces that explore some of the issues in greater depth - a format particularly useful for teaching purposes. Comprehensive guides to further reading follow each chapter.Tom Forester is a free-lance journalist living in England. He has contributed numerous articles to New Society, The Times, The Guardian, The Sunday Times, New Statesman, and Labour Weekly.