Excerpt from Information Resources and Economic Productivity The second trend is the emergence of new information technologies. Recent advances in electronic memory. Processing and transmission devices have brought down the cost per unit performance of elementary data handling functions by some orders of magnitude during the last two decades. And these cost trends show every sign of continuing. Computing, telecommunications and office automation systems based on these devices are beginning to transform the nature of information management throughout the economy. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.