Silicon Samurai

Tom Forester is Senior lecturer in the School of Computing and Information Technology, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. He is author and/or editor of six books on information technology, including The Information Technology Revolution (1985), High--Tech Society (1987), Computers in the Human Context (1989), and Computer Ethics (1990). He was educated at Sussex University and Balliol College, Oxford, and has studies and worked in America, and the Pacific Rim.

Contents Preface 1. Land of the Rising IT Industry 2. Consumer Electronics: Attacking the Soft Underbelly of IT 3. Semiconductors: How Japan Captured the 'Rice' Industry 4. Computers and Software: Moving Up the Technology 'Food Chain' 5. Manufacturing Technology: Controlling the Means of Production 6. Office Equipment: Supplying the Tools of the Trade 7. Telecommunications: Building the New Information 8. Conclusion: Japan, the US and Europe Index.