Panel
on "Information Technology and
the Profession" (MLA Committee
on Information Technology, MLA Convention,
San Diego, Dec. 28, 2003)
The Humanities:
A Technical Profession
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3. Thomas A. Stewart, Intellectual
Capital: The New Wealth of Organizations
(New York: Doubleday, 1997), p. ix:
"Information and knowledge are the
thermonuclear competitive weapons of our
time. Knowledge is more valuable and more
powerful than natural resources, big factories,
or fat bankrolls. In industry after industry,
success comes to the companies that have
the best information or wield it most
effectively. . . ."
4. The "Productivity Paradox"
of IT
IT capital
and productivity in the service
sector. Data from Stephen
S. Roach, Technology Imperatives;
chart from Thomas K. Landauer,
The Trouble with Computers,
p. 31
Thomas K. Landauer, The
Trouble with Computers: Usefulness,
Usability, and Productivity
(Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press,
1995)
Stephen S. Roach, Technology
Imperatives (New York: Morgan
Stanley, 1992)
Paul A. Strassman, Information
Payoff: The Transformation of
Work in the Electronic Age
(New York: Free Press / Macmillan,
1985)
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George Legrady, Pockets Full of Memories
(2001)
