S-shape development of technology

Foster 1986 Richard, Foster. “Innovation: The Attacker’s Advantage.” McKinsey and Company, New York (1986).

- The idea that the development of technology draws an S-curve.

• Technology does not continue to grow in one direction, but growth slows and is replaced by another technology
• The idea of metabolism, vicissitudes of fortune, sic transit gloria mundi that
  • It is familiar to the Japanese, but apparently surprising to Westerners. see Westerners looking at the trees, Orienters looking at the forest.

https://www.slideshare.net/Christiansandstrom/technology-s-curves

Cut this out on a separate page. Technology S‐Curve Ashish Sood https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/9781444316568.wiem05046 #Papers to be downloaded later

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