| W.N. Holmes, "The myth of the computer revolution," IEEE Computer, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 121-122, 1998 November. |
....past, and aspects of it which show continuing evolution can easily be found. Digital technology is not revolutionary. The more significant use of the technology in government and business has always been to enable present methods to continue and be improved, to avoid enforced or drastic change [22]. Nov elty is a marketing ploy. The recent dot corn bubble and its New Economy was a gigantic pyramid scheme, sustainable only as long as the illusion lasted that computers did anything genuinely new. 23] The World Wide Web has evolved from libraries, but is now in the hands of the media ....
W.N. Holmes, "The myth of the computer revolution," IEEE Computer, vol. 31, no. 11, pp. 121-122, 1998 November.
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