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attractiveness that includes implications for final output quality as well as the burden to the task doer
of carrying out the sequence. In a very real sense, task doers choose the execution sequence rather
than the technology, and it is the execution sequence that has performance impacts. This way of think-
ing also allows us to view “unfaithful appropriations” of technologies in a non-negative way, as the
discovery of an attractive execution sequence not anticipated by the technology designer.
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
I thank Stefano Grazioli and Barbara Klein for their invaluable collaboration in developing the
ideas described in the “Future Directions” section of this paper.
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