I'd been aware of the article from mentions by Isaac Asimov, who'd conducted much of the literature search for Stern while a student at Columbia, and mentions it in a few places. He based his short story "Trends" off the notion, as described here:
I find any number of aspects of the piece fascinating. Stern's own history, Asimov's involvement, the specific technologies listed, the dynamics and parties involved in resistance, the citations and references, the specific arguments made and raised (for and agaist technologies), and the depressing regularitty with which one period's tech maverick becomes the next's obstructor. Specific detail (the rationale against typesetting the Koran because of hog-bristle brushes, particularly).
Leading to the Clarke-Asimov pact [0], which stated that stated that Asimov was required to insist that Clarke was the best science fiction writer in the world (reserving second-best for himself), while Clarke was required to insist that Asimov was the best science writer in the world (reserving second-best for himself).
This is the paper Isaac Asimov researched as an undergrad, and was the basis of his first sci-fi story sold.
There's a lot of material on this topic.
https://duckduckgo.com/?q=resistance+to+technological+innova...
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