Watching the world scroll by.
The article focuses on the progress in the field of information technology (IT) in Japan. In a country Packed with electronics firms, Japanese workers of course have lots of computers on their desks. But many of these are still connected to old main-frames, run outdated software, and pro- vide only...
| Published in: | Economist Vol. 367; no. 8320; pp. 55 - 57 |
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Economist Newspaper Limited
4/19/2003
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