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However revolutionary the technology, account must always be taken of constraints upon its speed of adoption and diffusion and hence, derived manpower demand. Technological innovation does not exist in a vacuum; it forms but one element of a complex social system.¹

—UK Computer Sector Working Party, Manpower Subcommittee, 1979

Note

1. For more information, see Economic Development Committee for the Electronics Industry, Computer Sector Working Party, Manpower Sub-Committee, Discussion Papers on Education and Training; Final Report and Government Response, 1979–1980, ED 212/216, the National Archives of the United Kingdom (TNA).