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    Failure & Technology (644.8Kb)
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    2020-07-24
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    Coopersmith, Jonathan
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    Failure is an integral and normal part of a technology's evolution. Widely viewed, failure extends from the commercial collapse of a firm promoting new technology and the inability of a technology to profit in the marketplace to less obvious shortcomings like suboptimal performance, poor economics, and late delivery. Historians have not paid sufficient attention to this important subject, focusing on success. The understandable tendency to focus on what worked instead on what did not has resulted in a simplified appreciation of the tortuous, demanding and uncertain path that technologies follow to move from an idea to a reality. This paper explores the importance of failure in the history of technology and offers a theoretical framework to approach failure.
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/188538
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    Coopersmith, Jonathan. "Failure and Technology." Japan Journal for Science, Technology and Society 18 (2009): 93–118.
    Subject
    technology failure
    business failure
    fax machine
    innovation
    risk
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    Coopersmith, Jonathan (2020). Failure & Technology. Available electronically from https : / /hdl .handle .net /1969 .1 /188538.

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