The Economics of information technology
The IT industry eludes precise definition. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) spent a difficult and fruitless year in 1983 wrestling with this problem, and were still searching for an accurate and comprehensive description in 1985. For the purposes of this book, the IT industry may be thoug...
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| Language: | English |
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Macmillan
1986
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Add Tag | Summary: | The IT industry eludes precise definition. The Department of Trade and Industry (DTI) spent a difficult and fruitless year in 1983 wrestling with this problem, and were still searching for an accurate and comprehensive description in 1985. For the purposes of this book, the IT industry may be thought of as embracing telecommunications (telephones, switches, ex- changes, cables, satellites and broadcasting), on the one hand, and computers, on the other. Both have a history stretching back to the second half of the nineteenth century, but the differences in the technology which they initially used made any association of the two industries unlikely in the early years of their |
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| Physical Description: | 108pages illustrations 21cm |
| ISBN: | 0333394216 9780333394212 |
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