Title :
Economic preconditions that made possible application of commercial computing in the United States
Author :
Cortada, James W.
Author_Institution :
IBM Corp.
Abstract :
This article argues that it would have become very difficult for computers to have come into being, and subsequently be adopted by businesses, if the United States economy were not large and healthy. The author demonstrates that there were characteristics of the economy that facilitated the development and use of computers in the United States, beginning in the 1950s and continuing down to the present
Keywords :
DP industry; business data processing; economics; history; US economy; USA; businesses; commercial computing applications; economic preconditions; history; Application software; Business; Computer applications; Environmental economics; Environmental management; Europe; Isolation technology; Macroeconomics; Military computing; Pervasive computing;
Journal_Title :
Annals of the History of Computing, IEEE
