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Cambridge University Press Coolies Capital and Colonialism Studies in Indian Labour History 14 International Review of Social History Supplements Series Number 14
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of Network Industries
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Cambridge University Press The Economics of Network Industries
Book SynopsisThis book introduces upper-level undergraduates, graduate students, and researchers to the latest developments in network economics, one of the fastest-growing fields in all industrial organization. Network industries include the Internet, e-mail, telephony, computer hardware and software, music and video players, and service operations in the banking, legal, and airlines industries among many others. The work offers an overview of the subject matter as well as investigations about specific industries. It conveys the essential features of how strategic interactions between firms are affected by network activity, as well as covering social interaction and its influence on consumers' choices of products and services. Virtually no calculus is used in the text, and each chapter ends with a series of exercises and selected references. The text may be used for both one- and two-semester courses.Trade Review'The Economics of Network Industries is the first textbook devoted exclusively to the analysis of markets in which the utility of consumers increases with the number of others purchasing the same (i.e. compatible) product.' Managerial and Decision Economics'… the value of the undertaking is undisputable …'. Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv (Review of World Economics)Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. The hardware industry; 3. The software industry; 4. Technology, advance, and standardization; 5. Telecommunication; 6. Broadcasting; 7. Markets for information; 8. Banks and money; 9. The airline industry: social interaction; 10. Other networks; Appendix A. Normal-form games; Appendix B. Extensive-form games; Appendix C. Undercut-proof equilibria.
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Cambridge University Press Offshoring Information Technology
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Dot.Con
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Harper Business Haunted Empire
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Harper Business Haunted Empire
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Reprogramming the American Dream From Rural
Book SynopsisTrade Review"I hope you, like me, appreciate that Kevin finds some balance between the poles of 'the robots are coming for our jobs!' and 'AI is great, nothing to worry about!' I suspect that, in the coming decades, we'll increasingly recognize the wisdom of that view." — J.D. Vance, New York Times bestselling author of Hillbilly Elegy All good futures for our society and for humanity broadly require harnessing technology. Kevin has written a very important book here. He shows how and why to have optimism about artificial intelligence, harnessing the technology to restore the American Dream. What's the future we should work towards? Kevin's book shines the light forward. Highly recommended. — Reid Hoffman, co-founder of Linkedin and author of Blitzscaling "Kevin's examination of AI and the future of rural communities like the one in which he grew up in rural Virginia provides an unusually personal and empathetic perspective on how we can, together, create opportunity for ourselves, our organizations, and our world." — Satya Nadella, CEO of Microsoft "Scott’s version of our AI future is a refreshingly optimistic one, and it’s coming from someone who knows the technology very, very well." — Fast Company
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc The Information Trade
Book SynopsisA timely, compelling, and expertly researched passport to the tech companies that rule today''s digital landscape.—Blake Harris, bestselling author of Console Wars and The History of the Future.In this provocative book about our new tech-based reality, political insider and tech expert Alexis Wichowski considers the unchecked rise of tech giants like Facebook, Google, Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, and Tesla—what she calls “net states”— and their unavoidable influence in our lives. Rivaling nation states in power and capital, today’s net states are reaching into our physical world, inserting digital services into our lived environments in ways both unseen and, at times, unknown to us. They are transforming the way the world works, putting our rights up for grabs, from personal privacy to national security. Combining original reporting and insights drawn from more than 100 intervi
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HarperCollins Publishers Inc Hit Refresh The Quest to Rediscover Microsofts
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HarperCollins System Error
Book SynopsisRead this if you want to understand how to shape our technological future and reinvigorate democracy along the way.Reed Hastings, cofounder and CEO of NetflixA triumph: an analysis of the critical challenges facing our digital society that is as accessible as it is sophisticated. Anne-Marie Slaughter, CEO of New AmericaA forward-thinking manifesto from three Stanford professorsexperts who have worked at ground zero of the tech revolution for decadesthat reveals how big techs obsession with optimization and efficiency has sacrificed fundamental human values and outlines steps we can take to change course, renew our democracy, and save ourselves.In no more than the blink of an eye, a nave optimism about technologys liberating potential has given way to a dystopian obsession with biased algorithms, surveillance capitalism, and job-displacing robots. Yet too few of us see any alternative to accepting the onward marc
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University of Illinois Press Digital Depression
Book SynopsisFocuses on capitalism's crisis tendencies to confront the contradictory matrix of a technological revolution and economic stagnation making up the current political economy and demonstrates digital technology's central role in the global political economy.Trade Review"Provides a virtual fire hydrant stream of episodes and details. . . . Informed and informative. Recommended."--Choice "Schiller has outdone himself this time . . . . Schiller puts on an amazing performance juggling his well-placed emphasis on the role of the U.S. policy system, with the need to take note of changes taking place within the European community, and the rapidly rising power and influence being exercised on a global scale by government and corporate actors in China and India."--Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly"Drawing on excellent research across a range of fields, it provides the best book-length treatment of digital capitalism in the wake of the worldwide economic crisis that erupted in 2008 and offers the best map of the digital communications industry in current scholarship." --Vincent Mosco, author of To the Cloud: Big Data in a Turbulent World"Dan Schiller's book helps us to understand how rational and well-informed people can hold such diametrically opposing views. This book, and its extensive references, will be a valuable reference work for all future research in this area."--Boundary 2"Far-reaching as an empirical study of contemporary political economy and far-sighted as a social-scientific interpretation of a complex and contradictory reality. Extremely stimulating and important."--Richard Maxwell, co-author of Greening the Media
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MIT Press Ltd Designing Media
Book SynopsisConnections and clashes between new and old media, as told by interviewees ranging from the founder of Twitter to the publisher of the New York Times.Mainstream media, often known simply as MSM, have not yet disappeared in a digital takeover of the media landscape. But the long-dominant MSM—television, radio, newspapers, magazines, and books—have had to respond to emergent digital media. Newspapers have interactive Web sites; television broadcasts over the Internet; books are published in both electronic and print editions. In Designing Media, design guru Bill Moggridge examines connections and conflicts between old and new media, describing how the MSM have changed and how new patterns of media consumption are emerging. The book features interviews with thirty-seven significant figures in both traditional and new forms of mass communication; interviewees range from the publisher of the New York Times to the founder of Twitter. We learn about innovations in
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MIT Press Ltd IBM The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global
Book SynopsisA history of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.For decades, IBM shaped the way the world did business. IBM products were in every large organization, and IBM corporate culture established a management style that was imitated by companies around the globe. It was “Big Blue, ” an icon. And yet over the years, IBM has gone through both failure and success, surviving flatlining revenue and forced reinvention. The company almost went out of business in the early 1990s, then came back strong with new business strategies and an emphasis on artificial intelligence. In this authoritative, monumental history, James Cortada tells the story of one of the most influential American companies of the last century.Cortada, a historian who worked at IBM for many years, describes IBM's technology breakthroughs, including the development of the punch card (used for automatic tabulation in the 1890 census), the calculation and printing of the
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Little Brown and Company Tarzan Economics Eight Principles for Pivoting
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Little Brown and Company Palo Alto A History of California Capitalism and
Book Synopsis Named One of the Year's Best Books by VULTURE • THE NEW REPUBLIC • DAZED • WIRED • BLOOMBERG • ESQUIRE • SALON • THE NEXT BIG IDEA CLUBThe history of Silicon Valley, from railroads to microchips, is an “extraordinary” story of disruption and destruction, told for the first time in this comprehensive, jaw-dropping narrative (Greg Grandin, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The End of the Myth). Palo Alto’s weather is temperate, its people are educated and enterprising, its corporations are spiritually and materially ambitious and demonstrably world-changing. Palo Alto is also a haunted toxic waste dump built on stolen Indian burial grounds, and an integral part of the capitalist world system. In PALO ALTO, the first comprehensive, global history of Silicon Valley, Malcolm Harris examines how and why Northern California evolved in the particular, consequential way it did, tracing
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LUP - University of Michigan Press Making News at The New York Times
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Diversified Publishing No Rules Rules
Book SynopsisThe New York Times bestsellerShortlisted for the 2020 Financial Times & McKinsey Business Book of the YearNetflix cofounder Reed Hastings reveals for the first time the unorthodox culture behind one of the world''s most innovative, imaginative, and successful companiesThere has never before been a company like Netflix. It has led nothing short of a revolution in the entertainment industries, generating billions of dollars in annual revenue while capturing the imaginations of hundreds of millions of people in over 190 countries. But to reach these great heights, Netflix, which launched in 1998 as an online DVD rental service, has had to reinvent itself over and over again. This type of unprecedented flexibility would have been impossible without the counterintuitive and radical management principles that cofounder Reed Hastings established from the very beginning. Hastings rejected the conventional wisdom under which other compani
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Penguin Putnam Inc Like Comment Subscribe
Book SynopsisThe gripping inside story of YouTube, the company that upended media, culture, industry, and democracy—by a leading tech journalistAcross the world, people watch more than a billion hours of video on YouTube every day. Every minute, more than five hundred additional hours of footage are uploaded to the site, a technical feat unmatched in the history of computing. YouTube invented the attention economy we all live in today, forever changing how people are entertained, informed, and paid online. Everyone knows YouTube. And yet virtually no one knows how it works.Like, Comment, Subscribe is the first book to reveal the riveting, behind-the-scenes account of YouTube’s technology and business, detailing how it helped Google, its parent company, achieve unimaginable power, a narrative told through the people who run YouTube and the famous stars born on its stage. It’s the story of a revolution in media and an industry run amok, how a devotion t
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Virgin Books The Apple Revolution Steve Jobs the
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HarperCollins Focus The Future is Smart How Your Company Can
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Point B Inc Consumption Economics The New Rules of Tech
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Point B, Inc LESSONS UNLEARNED 25 Years in Customer Service
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TSIA TechnologyAsAService Playbook How to Grow a
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Tsia Digital Hesitation
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Cengage Learning The PR Styleguide Formats for Public Relations
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John Wiley & Sons Inc Cyber IntelligenceDriven Risk
Book SynopsisTurn cyber intelligence into meaningful business decisions and reduce losses from cyber events Cyber Intelligence-Driven Riskprovides a solution to one of the most pressing issues that executives and risk managers face: How can we weave information security into our business decisions to minimizeoverallbusiness risk? In today''s complex digital landscape, business decisions and cyber event responses have implications for information security that high-level actors may be unable to foresee. What we need is a cybersecurity command center capable of delivering, not just data, but concise, meaningful interpretations that allow us to make informed decisions. Building, buying, or outsourcing a CI-DR program is the answer. In his work with executives at leading financial organizations and with the U.S. military, author Richard O. Moore III has tested and proven this next-level approach to Intelligence and Risk. This book is a guide to: Table of ContentsPreface vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction xv Chapter 1: Objectives of a Cyber Intelligence-Driven Risk Program 1 Notes 5 Chapter 2: Importance of Cyber Intelligence for Businesses 7 Notes 14 Chapter 3: Military to Commercial Viability of the CI-DR™ Program 15 Notes 23 Chapter 4: CI-DR™ Security Program Components 25 Notes 39 Chapter 5: Functional Capabilities of the CI-DRTM Program 41 Notes 54 Chapter 6: CI-DR™ Key Capability Next-Generation Security Operations Center 55 Introduction by Kiran Vangaveti – CEO of BluSapphire 55 Notes 60 Chapter 7: CI-DR™ Key Capability Cyber Threat Intelligence 63 Notes 70 Chapter 8: CI-DR™ Key Capability Forensic Teams 71 Dr. Steven Johnson Notes 85 Chapter 9: CI-DR™ Key Capability Vulnerability Management Teams 87 By Derek Olson Notes 103 Chapter 10: CI-DR™ Key Capability Incident Response Teams 105 By Dr. Steven Johnson Notes 122 Chapter 11: CI-DR™ Collection Components 123 Notes 125 Chapter 12: CI-DR™ Stakeholders 127 By Steve Dufour, CEO Notes 133 Conclusion 135 Glossary 139 About the Author and Chapter Authors 145 Index 149
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Custom Publishing Public Speaking in a Diverse Society
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St Martin's Press Steve Jobs The Man Who Thought Different
Book SynopsisA riveting biography of the groundbreaking innovator who was a giant in the worlds of computing, music, filmmaking, design, smart phones, and more. A finalist for the YALSA Excellence in Nonfiction Award!Your time is limited. . . . have the courage to follow your heart and intuition. Steve JobsFrom the start, his path was never predictable. Steve Jobs was given up for adoption at birth, dropped out of college after one semester, and at the age of twenty, created Apple in his parents'' garage with his friend Steve Wozniack. Then came the core and hallmark of his geniushis exacting moderation for perfection, his counterculture life approach, and his level of taste and style that pushed all boundaries. A devoted husband, father, and Buddhist, he battled cancer for over a decade, became the ultimate CEO, and made the world want every product he touched, from the Macintosh to the iPhone, from iTunes and the iPod to the Macbook.Critically acclaimed a
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Picador USA Creative Selection
Book Synopsis* WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER *An insider''s account of Apple''s creative process during the golden years of Steve Jobs.Hundreds of millions of people use Apple products every day; several thousand work on Apple''s campus in Cupertino, California; but only a handful sit at the drawing board. Creative Selection recounts the life of one of the few who worked behind the scenes, a highly-respected software engineer who worked in the final years of the Steve Jobs erathe Golden Age of Apple. Ken Kocienda offers an inside look at Apple's creative process. For fifteen years, he was on the ground floor of the company as a specialist, directly responsible for experimenting with novel user interface concepts and writing powerful, easy-to-use software for products including the iPhone, the iPad, and the Safari web browser. His stories explain the symbiotic relationship between software and product development for those who have never dreamed of pr
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Johns Hopkins University Press User Unfriendly
Book SynopsisUser Unfriendly will be valuable to historians of technology, students of American culture, and anyone interested in our modern dependence on machines and gadgets.Trade Review"A thoughtful, even profound meditation on the relationship of technology and culture." (Robert C. Post, National Museum of American History)"Table of ContentsIntroduction: Our Marvelous and Maddening Machines1. The Advent of Technology Consumption2. Buying an Automobile3. Running a Car4. Tools, Tinkering, and Trouble5. Reading the Owner's Manual6. Computers and the Tyranny of Technology ConsumptionEpilogue: The Technology TreadmillAcknowledgmentsNotesIndex
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Arcadia Publishing (SC) Baltimore Radio and Television Images of America
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Berrett-Koehler Publishers Your Happiness Was Hacked: Why Tech Is Winning
Book Synopsis"Technology is a great servant but a terrible master. This is the most important book ever written about one of the most significant aspects of our lives--the consequences of our addiction to online technology and how we can liberate ourselves and our children from it."--Dean Ornish, M.D. Founder & President, Preventive Medicine Research Institute, Clinical Professor of Medicine, UCSF, Author, The SpectrumTechnology: your master, or your friend? Do you feel ruled by your smartphone and enslaved by your e-mail or social-network activities? Digital technology is making us miserable, say bestselling authors and former tech executives Vivek Wadhwa and Alex Salkever. We''ve become a tribe of tech addicts--and it''s not entirely our fault. Taking advantage of vulnerabilities in human brain function, tech companies entice us to overdose on technology interaction. This damages our lives, work, families, and friendships. Swipe-driven dating apps train us to evaluate people like products, diminishing our relationships. At work, we e-mail on average 77 times a day, ruining our concentration. At home, light from our screens is contributing to epidemic sleep deprivation. But we can reclaim our lives without dismissing technology. The authors explain how to avoid getting hooked on tech and how to define and control the roles that tech is playing and could play in our lives. And they provide a guide to technological and personal tools for regaining control. This readable book turns personal observation into a handy action guide to adapting to our new reality of omnipresent technology.
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Management Concepts, Inc The Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market
Book SynopsisUnlock the Door to the Federal IT Marketplace Here’s your key to selling IT goods and services to the government. David Perera and Steve Charles present the ins and outs of successfully competing for—and winning—a share of the tens of billions of dollars the federal government spends each year on IT. Getting a piece of that business is not easy—it takes accurate knowledge of systems and procedures, as well as sharp insight into the structure and details of government procurement. The Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market penetrates the haze of jargon and apparent complexity to reveal the inner workings of the IT contracting process. Whether you’re just setting out or seek a bigger share, this comprehensive book provides valuable information you can put to immediate use. The Inside Guide to the Federal IT Market covers: • Technology standards • Basic contracting concepts • Advanced contracting concepts, such as getting on and staying on the GSA schedules • The effect of the federal budget process on the sales cycle • What you need to know about ethics to earn business fairly, without avoidable delays and hassle This book’s focus on the IT market makes it a unique reference on federal procurement for private companies. Government procurement personnel will also find the depth and breadth of coverage useful in reviewing and evaluating IT offerings.
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Management Concepts, Inc The IT Project Management Answer Book
Book SynopsisZero in on the answers to your IT project management questions With constrained schedules and anxious stakeholders eager for results, the typical IT project team doesn’t have the luxury of wading through lengthy tomes to find solutions. The IT Project Management Answer Book guides you to the specific answers you need to successfully conduct and complete your IT project. Written in an easy-to-use question-and-answer format, the book covers all aspects of managing an IT project, from initial organizational issues to closeout. Following the classic project management processes, author David Pratt builds on the basics to offer valuable insights not found in other resources, including: • Proven techniques such as the best way to manage defects • How to create performance standards for outside contractors • How to develop a user’s manual For more technically inclined team members, the author’s plain-speak approach presents a refreshing view of the IT world. For those less technically oriented, he describes the tools and solutions for dealing with IT project challenges in an accessible, straightforward way. Let this information-packed resource lead you and your team to IT project success.
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Temple University Press,U.S. Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the
Book SynopsisExploring computer security as both a social and technical problemTrade Review"Johnston presents the ways antivirus workers think in fascinating detail. She is very astute and effective in analyzing and explicating the underlying assumptions of their logic. Technological Turf Wars is insightful, interesting, and it unfolds in ways that are quite surprising. Johnston demonstrates that this industry is as much a social world as it is a technical world."—John L. Caughey, Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College ParkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Naming the Threat 2. Security Transformations 3. Trust, Networks, and the Transformation of Organizational Power 4. IT Corporate Customers as End Users 5. Marketing Services 6. Situated Exclusions and Reinforced Power Works Cited Index
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Temple University Press,U.S. Technological Turf Wars: A Case Study of the
Book SynopsisExploring computer security as both a social and technical problemTrade Review"Johnston presents the ways antivirus workers think in fascinating detail. She is very astute and effective in analyzing and explicating the underlying assumptions of their logic. Technological Turf Wars is insightful, interesting, and it unfolds in ways that are quite surprising. Johnston demonstrates that this industry is as much a social world as it is a technical world."—John L. Caughey, Professor of American Studies, University of Maryland, College ParkTable of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction 1. Naming the Threat 2. Security Transformations 3. Trust, Networks, and the Transformation of Organizational Power 4. IT Corporate Customers as End Users 5. Marketing Services 6. Situated Exclusions and Reinforced Power Works Cited Index
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Red Wheel/Weiser Web Content Rx: A Quick and Handy Guide for
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Berrett-Koehler Humility Is the New Smart: Rethinking Human
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Epic Books Blockchain Foundations: For the Internet of Value
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ISTE Ltd and John Wiley & Sons Inc Looking Back and Going Forward in IT
Book SynopsisThis book places IT in perspective by tracing its development through time, covering its origins in business, the massive expansion of the role of IT at the end of the 20th century, the growth of the internet, and the successes and failures of companies involved in this development. Despite its ubiquity in the modern world, the author highlights that efficient use of IT by businesses can only be gained by a good understanding of its potentials and pitfalls, highlighting how its informed use in practice is essential for companies to succeed. Finally, questions are raised concerning the future of IT: who will reap the benefits and why? Will IT continue to provide solutions and will it always deliver on its promise? Will it cease to advance and thus cease to be studied or will it continue to develop and thus provide new opportunities and challenges to users?Table of ContentsForeword by Louis Schweitzer, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer, Renault 9 Introduction – All Set for an E-journey 13 Chapter 1. The First Information Revolution 17 1.1. Information: the catalyst for the development of the human community 17 1.2. Writing 19 1.3. Counting 20 1.4. Sorting: Hollerith’s tabulating machines 23 1.5. Europe lagging behind 24 Chapter 2. From Electromechanics to Electronics 27 2.1. The NCR crucible 27 2.2. A company named CTR 29 2.3. IT: a product of World War II 30 2.4. IT: a complex, precious and expensive commodity 32 2.4.1. The UNIVAC venture 33 2.4.2. The IBM riposte 34 2.4.3. The BUNCH 35 2.5. The trials and tribulations of IT in Europe 36 2.5.1. France: caught between state intervention and US domination 37 2.5.2. Great Britain’s vanishing greatness 40 2.6. Centralization of IT power and work organization 42 Chapter 3. The Dawn of the Digital Era 47 3.1. The quest for new freedom 47 3.2. The colorful saga of major firsts 49 3.2.1. The first micro-computers 50 3.2.2. Sources of inspiration 53 3.2.2.1. PARC 53 3.2.2.2. MIT54 3.2.3. The first groundbreaking software 56 3.2.3.1. The spreadsheet revolution 56 3.2.3.2. An e-mail odyssey 57 3.2.3.3. The birth of Bill Gates and Microsoft 58 3.2.3.4. The world of games 58 3.2.4. A three-dimensional world 59 3.2.5. Scientific instrumentation through servers: the story of HP 60 3.3. The internet explosion 61 3.3.1. From ARPANET to the web 62 3.3.2. 1993: the official birth of the web 65 Chapter 4. Light and Shade in the Digital World 69 4.1. The family tree of the digital world 69 4.1.1. Stalwarts undergoing change 69 4.1.1.1. Honor to whom honor is due 70 4.1.1.2. Telephone companies 71 4.1.2. How golden was my Valley! 72 4.1.3. Integrated software editors 74 4.1.4. Microsoft: an entirely separate case 75 4.1.5. The web generation 77 4.1.6. The inescapable consultants and service providers 78 4.2. The slippery slope 80 4.2.1. The victims of the second wave 80 4.2.2. Ousted leaders 81 4.2.3. Micro-computing à la française 82 4.2.4. Broken promises: could do better! 83 4.3. The engines powering progress in the digital era 84 4.3.1. Human/machine interface 85 4.3.2. The laws in the new world 87 4.3.2.1. Moore’s Law 88 4.3.2.2. Metcalfe’s Law 89 4.3.2.3. Ruettger’s Law 89 4.3.2.4. Gilder’s Law 89 4.3.2.5. Shannon’s Law 89 4.3.3. Machine diversification and interoperability 89 Chapter 5. The Promise and Reality of New Technology 91 5.1. IT effectiveness called into question 91 5.2. The value of IT92 5.2.1. IT and economic savings: can the case be closed? 93 5.2.1.1. The macroeconomic approach 95 5.2.1.2. The microeconomic approach 97 5.3. The IT sector set up as a model 102 5.4. Telecommunications in the eye of the storm 105 5.5. Shifting boundaries and extended companies 108 5.6. Corporate network players 110 5.6.1. The customer is always right! 110 5.6.2. Marketplaces113 5.6.3. Employee-centric 115 5.7. New opportunities and new competition 117 5.8. The new time/space framework 119 Chapter 6. IT Policies in Efficient Enterprises 121 6.1. Reduce the shortfall between promises and reality 121 6.2. Shedding light on IT and information systems 124 6.3. Information governance 126 6.4. Making choices 126 6.4.1. Interoperability 127 6.4.2. Scalability 128 6.4.3. Reversibility and independence vis-à-vis suppliers 128 6.4.4. Predictability of performance 129 6.5. Structuring 130 6.6. Realization 134 6.7. Measurements and monitoring 136 6.7.1. Keys to IT operations 140 6.7.2. Monitoring maintenance programs and new projects 141 6.8. To do it oneself or ask someone else to do it? 141 6.8.1. The rise of purchased tools 142 6.8.2. The transformation of in-house IT 143 6.8.2.1. Purchasing logic 143 6.8.2.2. The informed decision not to purchase 145 6.8.3. The merciless world of contracts 147 6.9. Sisyphus and security 150 Chapter 7. New Instructions for CIOs 153 7.1. Lessons of the past 154 7.1.1. Key IT issues since 1970, as seen through the eyes of CIGREF reports 156 7.1.2. With the benefit of hindsight: the major stakes of the 1990s 158 7.2. The CIO’s missions 161 7.2.1. The CIO-teacher 162 7.2.2. The CIO-leader 164 7.2.3. The CIO-manager 165 Chapter 8. New Vision(s)? 167 8.1. Gurus and a New Economy in a perfect world 167 8.1.1. Shattered dreams? 168 8.1.2. What remains of the dot-com years? 169 8.2. The technological outlook 170 8.2.1. What a beautiful world! 170 8.2.2. Open source software: the alternative? 174 8.2.3. Cyborg and the cyberworld: reality and delirium 176 8.3. Citizenship and economic development 177 8.3.1. Unequal access to internet resources 177 8.3.2. The first hesitant steps towards electronic democracy 181 8.3.2.1. Electronic voting 181 8.3.2.2. Access to public services 182 8.4. Developments in the Third World 184 8.5. Security and freedom: what are the real threats? 184 8.6. Press, media and culture 185 8.7. Health and education 187 Conclusion 191 References and Bibliography 193 Acknowledgements 197
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Monash University Publishing Governing in the Age of the Internet
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Crown Currency Financially Forward: How to Use Today's Digital
Book SynopsisChief digital officer at Northwestern Mutual, founder/CEO of LearnVest, and New York Times bestelling author shows how to use the simple tools of the digital age to get more out of our money.We live in a new financial world. Our wallets--like every other aspect of our lives--have gone fully digital. From mobile pay to on-demand everything to cryptocurrencies, technology is rewriting the rules for how we earn, save, spend and invest. Technology has made virtually every aspect of our lives cheaper and more convenient. Shouldn't it do the same when it comes to managing our finances?Von Tobel says that it can. In this straightforward and jargon-free guide, she shows us how to use the simple tools found on any smartphone to put more money back into our wallets. Readers will learn:Six new trends that are impacting our finances - and how to optimize themHow to navigate the world of mobile pay, and cash in by going cash-freeHow to save time and money by putting your savings--and spending--on autopilot Best practices for keeping your identity and financial accounts ultra-secureHow to talk to digital natives - ie your kids - about financial planning What the Bitcoin hype is all about and how to prepare for the future of digital moneyPreparing ourselves for the financial future gives us the security and freedom to live our richest lives. It's time to move Financially Forward...or get left behind.
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Barlow Book Publishing inc. The Zero Dollar Car: How the Revolution in Big
Book SynopsisThe Zero Dollar Car , written by John Ellis, former head of technology at Ford, explores the deep changes that Big Data will make to our lives in the very near future. A car is a perfect example. Right now cars are outfitted with sensors that gather valuable information about the driver and road conditions. What if the driver could trade that information for money? That information could be so valuable that it could pay for the car. Cars are only the beginning. Imagine the Zero Dollar House—would you be willing to trade the information sensors gather in your fridge, your bathroom, and elsewhere? Big technology companies like Apple and Google are already profiting from the sale of this kind of information, so why shouldn't we? Ellis tells the story of one of the unlikely pioneers in this business and aims to prepare readers for the incredible changes ahead, once consumers are in a position to profit from Big Data. It could result in major financial rewards for the consumer, but, Ellis warns, the sharing of data from home and car and elsewhere could also create serious and even deadly trouble. Car Today, House Tomorrow. Be Change Ready.Trade Review"John Ellis looks ahead and connects the dots of the utility of the automobile and the incredible data that is generated from understanding how we use it. His vision and insights will ignite your creativity." -- Tim Sullivan, Managing Principal, Meyers Research, a Kennedy Wilson Company"Whether you like it or not, John Ellis tells it like it is." -- Regina Hopper Formerly, President and CEO, ITS America"John Ellis' perspectives on the influence that data will play on consumer experiences, product development and the underlying ecosystems that connect both are fascinating and foreboding for those in, and outside of, the automotive industry." -- Aaron Schulenburg, Executive Director Society of Collision Repair Specialists
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