Future Trends in Information Technology

Future Trends in Information Technology

Technology in American Business

The growth of American business has been intimately linked to technological advance. The connection between technology and business, however, has not been a simple one. The ability of American business to profit from technological advance has been intertwined with government policies and programs, the development of new kinds of organizations, and the use of imported devices and techniques (Turkle, 2011).

Emerging technologies such as genetic engineering and the Internet seem to have little in common with cotton spinning or canal building. In their day, however, the latter were at ...