The General Drive to Compress Time and Reduce Cost

Abstract

Why worry about computerization? Companies have invested in increasingly efficient production technology for a long time and computers have been in existence for more than fifty years, and we have never experienced anything but growth and new opportunities from this development. Even if the previous chapters have provided examples of the current development, we still do not have a complete picture of why this development is different from previous attempts at computerization. I will try to show, sometimes in painstaking detail, what the significant differences are and why we now need to fear recession from a development that has previously contributed to growth.