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 forty 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 phone and renting it from the phone company suggests that he is resistant to adopting new technology and is therefore a laggard in the diffusion of innovation process for telephones.

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