As Time Goes by : From the Industrial Revolutions to the Information Revolution

Professor Chris Freeman
Oxford University Press, USA
 9780199241071
0-19-924107-4

The Internet and mobile telephones have made everyone more aware than ever of the computer revolution and its effects on the economy and society. 'As Time Goes By' puts this revolution in the perspective.

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of previous waves of technical change: steam-powered mechanization, electrification, and motorization. It argues for a theory of reasoned economic history which assigns a central place to these successive technological revolutions.