Article ID: CBB001253137

How New Technologies Spread: Lessons from Computing Technologies (2013)

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This paper describes how information technology (IT) spread around the world, discussing the research and historiographical challenges for historians looking at this topic. It discusses patterns of adoption, spread of knowledge about IT, expanding modes of use, and implications for study of the diffusion of technologies.

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Authors & Contributors
Joy Marie Lisi Rankin
Watts, Duncan J.
Jue Hou
Jelassi, T.
Cats-Baril, W. L.
Yost, Jeffrey R.
Journals
IEEE Annals of the History of Computing
Social Studies of Science
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften
MIS Quarterly
Journal of the American Society for Information Science and Technology
East Asian Science, Technology and Society: An International Journal
Publishers
MIT Press
Vieweg
The MIT Press
Johns Hopkins University Press
Akademika Publishing
Yale University
Concepts
Information technology
Computer science
Computers and computing
Computer industry
Technology
Relational databases; management
People
Kurtz, Thomas E.
Kemeny, John G. (1926-1993)
Aiken, Howard Hathaway
Zuse, Konrad
Von Neumann, John
Plato
Time Periods
20th century, late
20th century
21st century
19th century
20th century, early
Places
United States
Europe
Barcelona (Spain)
Zurich (Switzerland)
Catalonia (Spain)
Russia
Institutions
Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium
Dartmouth University
International Business Machines Corporation
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