The Adoption of the QWERTY Keyboard in the Early Days

question 6

Multiple Choice

The adoption of the QWERTY keyboard in the early days of mechanical typewriters, with its continued use today, has been suggested as a metaphor for:

• A) technological lock-in.
• B) a lazy monopoly.
• C) reverse engineering.
• D) X-inefficiency.

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