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- From: kellys@orac.holonet.net (Kelly Schwarzhoff)
- Subject: Re: Book on computer industry's effect on economy
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- Date: Fri, 1 Jan 1993 21:21:53 GMT
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- > I doubt you'll find a book like that. Have you tried computerized
- > literature searches through a library? They can turn up books &
- > articles. I expect what you want will be in papers, not books. My
- > experience (in researching engineering) is that the innovative stuff
- > is presented at conferences & that scholarly journals print "old
- > news"
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- I tried searching through melvyl and gladis (UC and UCB's electronic card
- catalog) but I had problems trying to categorize what I was looking for.
- What do you say when you're looking for economic statistics of the computer
- industry's effects? Do you have any suggestions as to which papers I could
- look for?
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- > What do you mean by that? Everyone knows there is a lot of marketing
- > hype in the computer industry that doesn't come true. Every so often
- > one sees an article "exposing" some of the fluff to be false. Is that
- > what you're talking about.
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- True, there is a lot of hype, but to say that computers has made business
- more unproductive is a bit of an exageration, wouldn't you say?
-
- Besides, in my essay I'm trying to concentrate on the positive effects.
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