Automation by Diebold John (9 items)

NY:: McGraw-Hill Book Company,. Fine in Near Fine dust jacket. 1964. Hardcover. No statment of printing. Fine in an about fine dust jacket. .

National Vocational Guidance. 1964. Paperback. UsedGood. ASIN: B0013Z4RL4 Softcover with stapled binding; fading and shelf wear to exterior; otherwise in good condition with clean text. .

McGraw-Hill, 1964. Hardback. Good.
Beyond Automation (1964) by John Diebold – McGraw-Hill
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Back when computers still filled rooms and “automation” was a terrifying buzzword, John Diebold was already peering into the future—and finding opportunity rather than doom. In Beyond Automation, this tech visionary explores how machines would reshape not just industry, but society, government, and the very nature of work. Spoiler: some of it came true, some of it got eaten by the internet.

Published in 1964, this McGraw-Hill edition is a Cold War classic of techno-optimism, complete with that unmistakable whiff of punch cards and pipe smoke. Our copy? It’s got edgewear, pencilled notes from someone who thought Y2K was coming early, and possibly the ghost of an IBM 7090 trapped inside.

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Couverture rigide. Bon/1957. in-8. Paris, Dunod, 1957, in-8, 156pp, broché, Très bel exemplaire

Praeger Publishers. Collectible - Good/Good. 1970. 1970 EDITION!!!!!!!!!!!!. Hard Cover. (T51) .

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc., 1952 1952 Van Nostrand first edition in price intact dust jacket. Moderate shelf wear with several small tears to dust jacket (see photos). Tight binding with several light markings to text. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Good/Good.

Van Nostrand, 1952-01-01. First Edition. hardcover. Good. 8x6x1. 1952 first edition tight and unmarked but lacks the jacket. D44 Please email for photos.

D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1952-01-01. Hardcover. Very Good. 8x6x1. Signed by Author. Diebold inscribed to previous owner and signed Van Nostrand in price intact jacket ($3.50)that shows light shelf wear including a short closed tear to the front panel. Tight binding, six pages show ink underlining. Please email for photos.

New York, Toronto, London: D. Van Nostrand Company, Inc, 1952. First printing. Very good in a very good minus jacket.. First edition of the pioneering businessman's first book, the work that "made 'automation' a household term" (THE SATURDAY EVENING POST). In AUTOMATION, John Diebold (1926-2005) foresaw how computers would replace a vast swathe of corporate functions: "Our clerical procedures," he wrote, "have been designed largely in terms of human limitations." The book was groundbreaking in a number of ways, not the least of which was the eventual establishment of The Diebold Group, the first consulting firm dedicated to computer use in business. A classic of corporate technology and management, the book's popularity inspired a sequel (BEYOND AUTOMATION, 1964) and was later included in the American Management Association's Classics reprint series. This copy bears the 1953 inscription of an electrical engineer working for General Electric, Lucien Terry Finch (1925-2005). Finch, who studied at the… Read more