ERIC Number: EJ618756
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 2001
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10 Passed Technologies.
Montfort, Nick
Technology Review, v104 n1 p90-93 Jan-Feb 2001
Argues that not every disappearing technology deserves that fate and presents 10 technologies that have an elegance and simplicity the winners lack such as the electric trolley, pneumatic post, Amiga, ribbon microphone, WordStar, Edison's wax cylinder, slide rule, reel mover, automatic watch, and airship. (Author/ASK)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 201 Vassar Street, W59-200, Cambridge, MA 02139.
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Opinion Papers
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Language: English
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