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The Drivers of the Information Revolution : Cost, Computing Power, and Convergence

The author explains the drivers of the information revolution - the decline in the cost of transmitting information, the increase in the power of computing, and the shift from analog to digital information technologies that has joined the telecommu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bond, James
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
ALGORITHMS
ANALOG
BANDWIDTH
BASIC
BINARY CODE
BROADCASTING
CHIPS
COMMUNICATIONS INDUSTRY
COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
COMPUTING
CONNECTIVITY
DATA SERVICES
DATA TRANSMISSION
DIGITAL INFORMATION
DIGITALIZATION
DISK DRIVES
DOS
ECONOMIES OF SCALE
ELECTRONIC CIRCUITS
ELECTRONICS
INFORMATION INDUSTRY
INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE
INFORMATION PROCESSING
INFORMATION SERVICES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES
INSTRUCTION
INTEGRATED CIRCUITS
INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
INTERNET ACCESS
LANS
LOCAL AREA NETWORKS
MAINFRAME COMPUTERS
MEDIA
NETWORKING
OPERATING SYSTEMS
PROPERTY RIGHTS
PROTOCOLS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS
TELECOMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGIES
TELEPHONE LINES
TELEPHONE SERVICES
TELEPHONY
TERMINALS
TRANSISTORS
VIRTUAL PRIVATE NETWORKS COMMUNICATION
FIBRE OPTICS
INFORMATION SOURCES
INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY
DIGITAL TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS
COMPUTER SYSTEMS
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1997/07/441713/drivers-information-revolution-cost-computing-power-convergence
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11579

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http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1997/07/441713/drivers-information-revolution-cost-computing-power-convergence
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/11579

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