Computer Needs In The Modern Academic Environment

Abstract

The industrial revolution, which began in Greta Britain around 1760, changed business as radically as Louis Pasteur’s proof of the germ theory of disease changed medicine. The industrial revolution caused the transition from manual to machine techniques of production that resulted in the domestic system of production giving way to the factory system.

Over two hundred years after the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, another upheaval is being visited on business. The Information Revolution spearheaded by the development of computers, is changing the way we do business, the way we educate business students, and even the way we think about business. Business faculty that are not up to date on computers or are not keeping their students up to date, are going to find that they and their students will be at a competitive disadvantage.