The digital flood:diffusion of information technology across the United States, Europe, and Asia
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Oxford University Press,
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Publisher Address: | Oxford New York |
Publication Dates: | c2012. |
Literature type: | Book |
Language: | English |
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Carrier Form: | xix, 789 p.: ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
ISBN: |
9780199921553 (cloth : alk. paper) 0199921555 (cloth : alk. paper) |
Index Number: | TP3 |
CLC: | TP3-09 |
Call Number: | TP3-09/C827 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. How much computing is the in the world? -- Diffusion of computing starts in the United States -- West European deployment begins : Great Britain, France, and West Germany -- Diffusion of computing in Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden -- How Western Europe embraced information technologies -- Limits of diffusion : computing in the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe -- Computing comes to Japan -- IT tigers of Asia : South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore -- China : embracing IT in changing times -- India and the limits of digital diffusion -- How Asia embraced information tec |