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There are lo-tech spaces, and a great many which are not, or avoid high technology, which is what most people. mean by "tech sector", if not the even narrower band of "high information technology".

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_tech

Particularly the cited reference, the OECD definition:

Hatzichronoglou, Thomas: "Revision of the High-Technology Sector and Product Classification", OECD Science, Technology and Industry Working Papers, No. 1997/02, OECD Publishing, Paris.

https://read.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/revisi...

Page 7 specifically divides industries into four technology levels, high, medium-high, medium low, and low.

Given J.S. Mill's wonderful definition of technology, 'the study of means", there's little in human activity which is ccompletely atechnological. There remains, however, much that is quite some remove from the cutting edge.

In the technology adoption lifecycle, high tech are innovators. An early-adopter firm is itself still not high tech itself.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology_adoption_life_cycle



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