出版社：Escola Brasileira de Administração Pública e de Empresas da Fundação Getulio Vargas
摘要：Apesar de utilizados em escada comercial nos EUA, desde 1951, os computadores tiveram seu uso mais difundido a partir de meados da década de 60. O desenvolvimento de novas tecnologias, notadamente a dos circuitos integrados, provocou sucessivas reduções nos custos de fabricação, motivando o aumento do emprego dos computadores. Com o advento dos circuitos de grande integração (LSI), aliado ao contínuo aperfeiçoamento do software, o setor ganhou novo impulso a partir dos anos 70. Nos primeiros 25 anos da era do computador (1950-75) foram instalados cerca de 200 mil computadores americanos em todo o mundo. De 1976 até 1980, estima-se que serão instalados, pelos mesmos fabricantes, mais de 800 mil novos computadores, o que significa quatro vezes o total instalado nos primeiros 25 anos.
其他摘要：This article shows, along general lines, the evolution on worldwide applications of the informatics, from which emerged new great industries, characterized by their use of point technologies and by their keeping of a rhythm of growth that, as informs the United Nations, will lead them in the following decade to the third position in economic significance, immediately after energy and transport industries. The world market for computers has been controlled by North American enterprises, the investments of which, in research and development, are probably superior to the sum of resources applied in this industrial field by all the other countries. The nations possessing a specific technological basis, formed by highly qualified professional technicians, have increased their possibilities of autonomy with the appearance of the minicomputers. In Brazil, the use of computers went through a process of rapid growth since 1969, largely as a result of the country's economic expansion during the period of 1968-74, which imposed a modernization of vast segments both of public administration and of the private sector.
