When John began helping his favorite uncle Burton with his finances,he discovered his uncle was still renting a rotary-dial telephone from the phone company.Uncle Burton had paid thousands of dollars in rental fees over the previous 40 years.Uncle Burton is a(n)__________ in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.
A) innovator
B) laggard
C) late majority
D) early majority
E) early adopter

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Uncle Burton's continued use of a rotary-dial telephone and renting it from the phone company indicates that he is resistant to change and slow in adopting new technologies, making him a laggard in the diffusion of innovation process.

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