Digital Flood: The Diffusion of Information Technology Across the U.S., Europe, and Asia

by James W. Cortada

Book Overview

No technology seems to have spread so fast around the world in such a short period of time as computers. It was a phenomenon that predated the arrival of the Internet and that began to change how businesses, governments, and whole societies functioned. The diffusion of information technologies occurred in dozens of countries all over the world with fascinating similarities and differences.

In this book, historian James W. Cortada provides the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199921555
• ISBN13: 9780199921553
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: OUP Us
• Length: 816 Pages
• Weight: 2.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.7" x 6.3" x 9.4"