A Nation Transformed by Information

A Nation Transformed by Information by Chandler

This book makes the startling case that North Americans were getting on the "information highway" as early as the 1700s, and have been using it as a critical building block of their social, economic, and political world ever since. By the time of the founding of the United States, there was a postal system and roads for the distribution of mail, copyright laws to protect intellectual property, and newspapers, books, and broadsides to bring information to a populace that was building a nation on the basis of an informed electorate. In the 19th century, Americans developed the telegraph, telephone, and motion pictures, inventions that further expanded the reach of information. In the 20th century they added television, computers, and the Internet, ultimately connecting themselves to a whole world of information. From the beginning North Americans were willing to invest in the infrastucture to make such connectivity possible. This book explores what the deployment of these technologies says about American society. The editors assembled a group of contributors who are experts in their particular fields and worked with them to create a book that is fully integrated and cross-referenced.

This is a pioneering effort to illustrate a simple fact-that the American information 'revolution' is anything but new

Alfred D. Chandler, Jr. is Isidor Straus Professor of Business History, Emeritus, at Harvard Business School. James W. Cortada is a Senior Consultant at IBM Consulting Group.

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ISBN 13	9780195128147
ISBN 10	0195128141
Title	A Nation Transformed by Information
Author	Chandler
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Oxford University Press Inc
Year published	2006-03-23
Number of pages	404
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