Introduction to Connected Services
Clemens Hiraoka · Gabler eBooks · 2009
At the beginning of research on technology acceptance two decades ago, the degree of technology in our daily lives was quite limited: consumer electronics had just begun to get digitalized with the introduction of the Compact Disc in 1982, one year later Motorola introduced the first commercial “mobile” phone model “DynaTAC” at a weight of 0.8 kilogram and a dimension of 33x5x9 centimeters, and the Internet in the form of the World Wide Web was not even developed.