Programmed Capitalism: Computer-mediated Global Society

Abstract

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Metamorphosis in the Making -- The Nature of Computerized Hyperstructures -- The New Industrial Revolution -- Computers Transform the Factory -- Computerized Military Weaponry -- The Transformation of Telecommunications -- Transportation -- And Communications Sectors -- Education -- Medicine and Health Care -- The Sciences -- The Transformation of theNatural Resource Industries -- The Financial Services Sector -- Black Monday -- The Future: Coping witha Computer-Mediated Society -- Societal Revolutions in Perspective -- The Smithian, Marxian, and SchumpeterianVisions of Societal Evolution -- The Computer, Capitalism, andthe Evolution of Society -- Chapter 2. The Rise of the Computer-Based Information Infrastructure -- Information: The Raw Material of Corporate,Economic, and Political Decision Making -- A Brief History of Databank Developments -- The Personal Computer, the Telephone,and the Databank Industry -- Electronic Information in Its Own Right -- High-Capacity Storage,Processing, and Delivery -- The New Electronic FinancialInformation Services Game -- Reuters Diversifies -- Dun & Bradstreet Evolves -- McGraw-Hill Expands -- The Evolving Computer-MediatedGlobal Information Infrastructure -- Chapter3. Computerizing the Money and Payments -- The Money Economy Goes Electronic -- ATMs, POS Systems, and Bank Cards -- The Growth of Magnetic Strip Cards -- The Age of ATM Networks -- Shared ATM Networks for Banks and Retailers -- A Wired Up America -- Competition Heats Up in theCredit Card Business -- Universal, Multipurpose Retail Machines -- Intelligent Plastic -- The Computer Creates a National andGlobal Financial Village -- The Invisible World ofArtificially Intelligent Money