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The use of a new technology can be viewed as the culmination of a long and complicated sequence of activities. In summary, this can be referred to as the process of technological change. This process covers the wide range of interacting events by which technology evolves over time.
Knowledge advances by steps, and not by leaps.
(Thomas Babbington Macaulay)
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© 1987 Bohn, Scheltema & Holkema bv, Utrecht
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Banta, H.D. (1987). Development and Diffusion of Health Care Technology. In: Anticipating and Assessing Health Care Technology. Scenario Commission on Future Health Care Technology. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-3343-9_3
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