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Richard Coopey, ed. Information and Technology Policy: An International History. New York: Oxford University Press, 2004. xvi + 346 pp. ISBN 0-19-924105-8, $99.50 (cloth).
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Richard Coopeys Information and Technology Policy is an edited volume featuring an impressive array of scholars who provide nuanced accounts of national governmental policies related to the computer and (to a lesser extent) software industries. As Coopey writes in his introduction, the postWorld War II period is remembered as a time of American political, economic, and technological ascendancy. In the design, manufacture, and distribution of computers, the United
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