A Question of Scale: Networks, Systems, and Practice.

What does the Ford mass-production story have to do with the history of computing? Everything. More than half a century before Toyota's just-in-time inventory captured hearts and minds around the industrial world, Ford was using state-of-the-art information technology to implement a system of networked manufacturing. Historians of computing should continue to produce work about work, particularly work in the predigital age. Practice matters. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]