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PREFACE; 1. Arrival of Digital Technologies and Their Applications; 2.Digitizing the American Economy; 3. Presence and Role of ManufacturingIndustries in the American Economy; 4. Business Patterns and DigitalApplications in the Transformation of Manufacturing Industries; 5. Patternsand Practices in Three Traditional Manufacturing Industries: Automotive,Steel and Aerospace; 6. Patterns and Practices in Three Process Industries:Petroleum, Chemical, and Pharmaceuticals; 7. Business Practices and DigitalApplications in Information Age Manufacturing Industries: Semiconductors,Hard Drives, and Software; 8. Business Practices and Digital Applications inthe Transformation of Transportation Industries: Trains and Trucks; 9.Presence of Wholesale and Retail Industries in the American Economy; 10.Business Patterns and Digital Applications in the Transformation of Wholesaleand Retail Industries; 11. Patterns and Practices in Three Retail Industries:Grocery, Apparel, e-Tailing; 12. Conclusion: How Computers Changed theAmerican Economy; Appendix A: How to Study the Role of Computing by Industry;Appendix B: The Universal Product Code (UPC), Optical Character Recognition(OCR), and Point-of-Sale (POS); Bibliographic Essay