Question

When Jon began helping his favorite uncle Burt with his finances, he discovered his uncle was still renting a rotary-dial telephone from the phone company. Uncle Burt had paid thousands of dollars in rental fees over the previous 40 years. Uncle Burt is a(n) __________ in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.

Answer 1

Answer:Uncle Burt is a laggard in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.

Explanation:

Laggard refers to a person who is slow to adjust to progress and usual get left behind as people adjust to new and current innovations.

Diffusion innovation refers to how ideas or products receive great momentum and spread out throughout a particular population. People begin to adopt these new ideas or products and move away from using the old ones.

For example the use of smart phones has spread out throughout reaching most population and the older version of phones are littles by little disappearing as people adopt this new innovation.

Uncle was still renting a rotary-dial telephone which is an oldest version of telecommunications , he has adopted the new phones that are currently used by most people so Uncle Burt is left behind in using the old product and this makes him a laggard.