19.469 path-dependencies

               Humanist Discussion Group, Vol. 19, No. 469.
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         Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2005 06:20:49 +0000
         From: Willard McCarty <willard.mccarty_at_kcl.ac.uk>
         Subject: path-dependencies

Allow me to draw your attention to a fine article illustrating the
historically contingent development of technology. This is Paul A.
David's "Clio and the Economics of QWERTY", The American Economic
Review 75.2 (1985): 332-7 (in JSTOR). It is discussed in the context
of computing by Paul W. Abrahams, "A World without Work", in Denning
and Metcalfe, eds., Beyond Calculation: The Next Fifty Years of
Computing (New York: Copernicus, 1997): 135-47.

Yours,
WM

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