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3 THE GLOBAL DIFFUSION OF COMPUTING: ISSUES IN DEVELOPMENT AND POLICY
Pages 18-21

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... A handful of American companies manufactured most of the computers in the world, and annual machine production of the biggest companies measured in the tens of thousands. Most of this equipment stayed in the United States, and little of the rest moved outside of industrial countries, most of which were American allies.
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From page 19...
... This is not to say that there are no significant threats to the United States from foreign sources who may benefit from enhanced computing capabilities, but these threats are not in the same league as the earlier possibilities for global superpower conflict. Taken together with the realities of technological progress and diffusion, this means that advocates of controls find it harder to justify the continuation of controls on the basis of specific applications that potential enemies might be able to pursue using computer products that might still be effectively controlled.
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... In the United States, which does not have a comprehensive national industrial policy, there are, nevertheless, many government players promoting business interests at the national, state, and local levels. With many government stakeholders and their constituents, the concern for jobs and exports carries more weight these days than claims of computer-based military threats (although computer-based security problems have been attracting a much greater level of concern in the business and privacy arenas, partly as a result of global diffusion)
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... For example, many things from American political correctness to law enforcement practices to intellectual property rights to Islamic religious tenets may be seen as local sensitivities that are increasingly to be battered in a global multimedia free-for-all. Many forms of conflict, both civil and military, are finding fertile international or transnational breeding grounds in the IT-based media.
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