Cloud and the Diffusion of Innovation

Leslie Willcocks, Will Venters and Edgar A. Whitley
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Leslie Willcocks: London School of Economics and Political Science
Will Venters: London School of Economics and Political Science
Edgar A. Whitley: London School of Economics and Political Science

Chapter Chapter 6 in Moving to the Cloud Corporation, 2014, pp 102-124 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract The First Law of Technology applies to cloud. The law says: We invariably overestimate the short-term impact of new technologies, while underestimating their long-term effects.1 In his work on the future of the Internet John Naughton makes a strong case for this law. Certainly, it is clear that if the much hyped take-off period from 1995 ended in the bursting of the ‘e-business bubble’ in 2000/01, all predictions of its impact now have to go way beyond the technology and hi-tech sectors, into widespread social, economic, indeed global impacts.2

Keywords: Large Hadron Collider; Cloud Computing; Business Process; Cloud Provider; Radical Innovation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137347473_6

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