A History Shared and Divided. East and West Germany Since the 1970s
E chapter 7 Paths to Digital Modernity Computerization as Social Change Jürgen Danyel and Annette Schuhmann B y the time microel ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 349 ernment agencies, computerization entered a new phase in the 1970s as it reached a growing number ...
350 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN solutions within the COMECON, but limited production capacities and diff ering levels of ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 351 on the United States and Japan. The only people who seemed to be in- terested in whether the East ...
352 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN theses claiming that an end had come to modernity—and the expecta- tions of progress ass ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 353 GDR, moreover, the critique against the surveillance of the Stasi had very little to do with comp ...
354 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN one umbrella. Originally, “information society” was used to refl ect the growing role of ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 355 of home computers or video game consoles, opened the fl oodgates for information society in the m ...
356 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN As computerization progressed, the discourses in East and West were preoccupied with the ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 357 ogy), and then later the Chinese (all areas). This talk of falling behind reappeared over and ove ...
358 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN the victory of communism, claiming that such a process would lead to the demise of capit ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 359 dustrial facilities since the 1950s still continued to dominate the market until the early 1970s. ...
360 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN Nonetheless, the costs for what was referred to as midrange data tech- nology remained h ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 361 biotic relationships with one another, but they are also just as likely to give up on them. At th ...
362 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN the tide of public opinion really began to turn against it after the reactor meltdowns i ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 363 anese broke off the negotiations under pressure coming from the U.S. government.^43 When the one- ...
364 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN the army, or the economy. Consequently, it did not take long for the term “home computer ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 365 The dynamics of a networked society, moreover, presented them with greater technical, cultural, a ...
366 JÜRGEN DANYEL AND ANNETTE SCHUHMANN formerly powerful groups of employees, such as the typesetters, were made redundant by p ...
PATHS TO DIGITAL MODERNITY 367 Simultaneously, however, the number of employees in other service and administrative areas increa ...
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