One of the topics of the article (though he doesn't mention PCs themselves, but other technologies). > In 1994, the economists Sue Bowden and Avner Offer studi

One of the topics of the article (though he doesn't mention PCs themselves, but other technologies). > In 1994, the economists Sue Bowden and Avner Offer studied how various 20th-century technologies had spread among households. They concluded that “time using” technologies (for example, TV and radio) diffused faster than “time saving” technologies (vacuum cleaners, refrigerators, washing machines).