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W. Brian Arthur on Technology

born 1946 Northern Ireland

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More than anything else technology creates our world. It creates our wealth, our economy, our very way of being.

The Nature of Technology: What It Is and How It Evolves (2009)

A technology that by chance gains an early lead in adoption may eventually 'corner the market' of potential adopters, with the other technologies becoming locked out.

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events (1989)

Where we observe the predominance of one technology or one economic outcome over its competitors we should thus be cautious of any exercise that seeks the means by which the winner's innate 'superiority' came to be translated into adoption.

Competing Technologies, Increasing Returns and Lock-in by Historical Events (1989)

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