The Information Technology Field: Using Fields and Paradigms for Analyzing Technological Change
提出技术领域概念,用于分析重大技术的历史并预测未来,以信息技术为例,兼顾技术轨迹和社会经济因素,关注管理与工作组织问题。
The technology field is proposed as a concept which will allow us to analyze the history of substantial technologies and to make predictions about future developments. The history of information technology is analyzed as an example of a technology field. The technology field gives place both to "supply-side," "natural," technological trajectories, and to "demand-side" socioeconomic factors. Unlike the recently developed concept of technological paradigm, the technology field directs our attention to issues of management and work organization which accompany the diffusion of a major new technology.