The History, Present State, and Future of Information Technology

Andrew Targowski

• Paperback: 418 pages
• Publisher: Informing Science Press (December 9, 2015)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1681100029
• ISBN-13: 978-1681100029
• Product Dimensions: 7.2 x 1 x 10.1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
• Price on Amazon $79.99
  

The purpose of this book is to characterize the main developmental trends of information technology (IT) in the world. In the presented approach the following situations and issues are investigated: • The most important achievements of information technology (IT) in the world, • Shifts in paradigms which triggered new developmental trends in IT and brought an end to previous ones, • The state of the current development of IT, • The future of the development of IT Usually books on information technology focus on achievements and issues which have taken place in the political West, mostly in the United States, United Kingdom, and France. However, the development of IT has also taken place in the political East, such as in the USSR, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Hungary, Romania, and recently in China.