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... Accelerated Technology Development Fueling the revolution in information products, and to some extent deriving from it, has been a great increase in the rate of technology development in general in the postwar period. Throughout the first half of the twentieth century, technology Whether measured by patents or any other yardstick had progressed at a steadily accelerating rate.
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  • postwar period
  • engineering work
  • american business
  • considerable stress
  • engineering supply

  • accelerating rate


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