No one doubts that computers have made businesses more fast-paced, efficient and flexible. The clerks of Dickens' day, laboriously entering facts and figures into ledgers, are long gone. The 20th century's legions of secretaries armed with typewriters, carbon paper and filing . . .
No one doubts that computers have made businesses more fast-paced, efficient and flexible. The clerks of Dickens' day, laboriously entering facts and figures into ledgers, are long gone. The 20th century's legions of secretaries armed with typewriters, carbon paper and filing cabinets have faded away, replaced by administrative assistants, personal computers, and virtual files and folders. Computers have allowed companies to gather, analyse and stockpile vast amounts of data - and then use this information in ways that simply were not possible before the digital revolution.

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