The digital flood: the diffusion of information technology across the U.S., Europe, and Asia
Choice Reviews Online · 2013
Preface 1. How Much Computing Is in The World? 2. Diffusion of Computing Starts in the United States 3. Early Western European Deployment: Great Britain, France and West Germany 4. Diffusion of Computing in Italy, Netherlands, and Sweden 5. How Western Europe Embraced Information Technologies 6. Limits of Diffusion: Computing in the Soviet Union, German Democratic Republic and Eastern Europe 7. Computing Comes to Japan 8. Diffusion of Computing into South Korea, Taiwan, and Singapore 9. China: Embracing IT in Changing Times 10. India AND THE Limits of Digital Diffusion 11. How Asia Embraced Information Technologies 12. Diffusion of Information Technologies: Results and Implications Appendices: A. Preparing a Global Diffusion History: Lessons Learned, Paths Not Taken B. Wave One and Wave Two Compared Endnotes Bibliographic Essay Index