Technology and Culture: The Dissemination and the Potential 'Lock-in' of New Technologies

How do technological innovations change the patterns of their cultural diffusion in socio-economic networks? Cellular automata enable us to show Arthur's (1988) model of a potential 'lock-in' of a new technology in terms of dominant colours on the screen. The 'lock-in' effec...

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Main Author: Leydesdorff, Loet
Language:en
Published: 2001
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10150/105646