TY - BOOK AU - Chandler Alfred D AU - Cortada James W TI - A nation transformed by information : How information has shaped the United States from colonial times to the present SN - 0195127013 U1 - 338.06 CHA PY - 2002/// CY - Oxford PB - Oxford University Press KW - 1. Information Technology - Development - U S A - History2. Information Technology - Impact - Socio-Economic - Political Development - U S A N1 - Contents; Contributors; 1.The Information Age in Historical Perspective Introduction 2.Early American Origins of the Informat1on Age; 3.Recasting the Information Infrastructure for the Industrial Age; 4.Business Use of Informat1on and Technology during the Industrial Age; 5.The Threshold of the Informat1on Age Radio Television and Motion Pictures Mobilize the Nation; 6.Progenitors of the Information Age The Development of Chips and Computers; 7.Information Technology Management Since 1960; 8.Computers in US Households Since 1977; 9.The Information Age Continuities and Differences Notes; Bibliographic Essay on the Role of Information in the Transformation of the United States Index; Copyright ER -