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How New Technologies Spread: Lessons from Computing Technologies
- Technology and Culture
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 54, Number 2, April 2013
- pp. 229-261
- 10.1353/tech.2013.0081
- Article
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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.