A nation transformed by information : how information has shaped the United States from colonial times to the present / editors Alfred D. Chandler Jr, James W. Cortada.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Chandler, Alfred D. (Alfred Dupont), 1918-2007, editor.

Cortada, James W., editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Information technology--United States--History.

Information technology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (393 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Tracing the information age back to the 1600s, the contributors to this study argue that American society has benefitted from innovation in the transfer of information and that modern systems are merely an extension of the roads and mail system.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; 1 The Information Age in Historical Perspective: Introduction; 2 Early American Origins of the Information Age; 3 Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age; 4 Business Use of Information and Technology during the Industrial Age; 5 The Threshold of the Information Age: Radio, Television, and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation; 6 Progenitors of the Information Age: The Development of Chips and Computers; 7 Information Technology Management Since 1960; 8 Computers in U.S. Households Since 1977; 9 The Information Age: Continuities and Differences

NotesBibliographic Essay on the Role of Information in the Transformation of the United States; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z

Notes:

Previously issued in print: 2000.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.

ISBN:

0-19-028443-9

0-19-770244-9

1-280-47193-X

1-4237-6030-1

0-19-535200-9

1-60256-342-X

OCLC:

171572259