As I See It: What’s Old is New
October 13, 2008 Victor Rozek
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The economy may be in shambles, but the surge appears to be working. No, not that surge, the IT Surge. At least that’s what Andrew McAfee and Erik Brynjolfsson call it. The silly war metaphor (silly, because the similarity between business and war ends when the first shot is fired) is used to describe the period between 1995 and 2005 when investment in all things IT jumped from about $3,500 per worker to around $8,000. That’s a hefty increase, as surges go, but what did it actually accomplish? Cause and effect are often elusive, still it’s worth noting that during |
