The teams and the playrs: Japan, the United States, and Western Europe provide striking contrasts in national interests and techniques: Strategies

Within the past two years, Japan, the United States, and Europe have inaugurated major research and development programs in information technology, all feeling the urgency that, in the words of Robert E. Kahn, “the nation that dominates this information-processing field will possess the keys to world leadership in the twenty-first century” [p. 36].