Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945 - Couverture rigide

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Heide, Lars

 
9780801891434: Punched-Card Systems and the Early Information Explosion, 1880-1945
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ISBN 10 : 0801891434 ISBN 13 : 9780801891434
Editeur : Johns Hopkins University Press, 2009

Synopsis

At a time when Internet use is closely tracked and social networking sites supply data for targeted advertising, Lars Heide presents the first academic study of the invention that fueled today's information revolution: the punched card.

Early punched cards helped to process the United States census in 1890. They soon proved useful in calculating invoices and issuing pay slips. As demand for more sophisticated systems and reading machines increased in both the United States and Europe, punched cards served ever-larger data-processing purposes. Insurance companies, public utilities, businesses, and governments all used them to keep detailed records of their customers, competitors, employees, citizens, and enemies.

The United States used punched-card registers in the late 1930s to pay roughly 21 million Americans their Social Security pensions, Vichy France used similar technologies in an attempt to mobilize an army against the occupying German forces, and the Germans in 1941 developed several punched-card registers to make the war effort--and surveillance of minorities--more effective. Heide's analysis of these three major punched-card systems, as well as the impact of the invention on Great Britain, illustrates how different cultures collected personal and financial data and how they adapted to new technologies.

This comparative study will interest students and scholars from a wide range of disciplines, including the history of technology, computer science, business history, and management and organizational studies.

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À propos de l'auteur

Lars Heide is an associate professor at the Centre for Business History at Copenhagen Business School.

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Éditeur
Johns Hopkins University Press
Date d'édition
2009
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0801891434
ISBN 13 
9780801891434
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
376
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