4 Computers and Communications
Innovations in transportation, and related technologies, as outlined in Chapter 3 drove economic growth in the US for quite some time. However, the dominance of this ecosystem was displaced by the mid-twentieth century by computers and communications. The seeds of this transformation have a rich history (Isaacson, 2014), including Franklin and electricity in 1752 (Isaacson, 2003), Bell and the telephone in 1876 (Grosvenor & Wesson, 2016), and Edison and electric lighting in 1880 (Jonnes, 2003). However, the market innovations in computers and communications emerged in the 1940s.
Innovation in Computing and Communications
The evolution of computer technology and the computer industry ...
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