Spectacular Flops

Spectacular Flops
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Publisher : Eliot Werner Publications
Total Pages : 354
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ISBN-10 : 9781733376945
ISBN-13 : 1733376941
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Book Synopsis Spectacular Flops by : Michael Brian Schiffer

Download or read book Spectacular Flops written by Michael Brian Schiffer and published by Eliot Werner Publications. This book was released on 2018-12-31 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Many technologies begin life as someone's vision of an ambitious, perhaps audacious, technology that is expected to have a revolutionary impact on consumers-whether families, companies, or societies. However, if this highly touted technology fails "prematurely" at some point in its life history, it becomes a spectacular flop. Employing a behavioral perspective, this book presents a sample of twelve spectacular flops encompassing the past three centuries-ranging from the world's first automobile to the nuclear-powered bomber. Because technologies may fail from many different causes, spectacular flops pose a special challenge to the author's long-term project of furnishing generalizations about technological change. Instead of constructing generalizations that apply to all spectacular flops, this book provides limited generalizations that pertain to particular groups of technologies bounded by parameters such as "long-term development projects" and "one-off projects." The reader need have no prior familiarity with the technologies because basic principles are introduced as needed.


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