Abstract
Rhythm is presented here as a new way of recognising or framing resemblances (a family or pattern which contains both similarities and differences) among the ways a number of different people have analysed the development of technology. Taking examples primarily from analyses of the development of information technology, rhythm is presented as a way of encouraging both a wider and a deeper redescription of theories of technological development. Wider in the sense that the concept of rhythm can embrace the way we think about technological development at different levels as well as for different technologies. Deeper in the sense that the concept of rhythm has guided the theoretical investigation of these analyses beyond a comparison of their descriptions of the time pattern of technological development, to comparing the underlying theoretical device or devices which 'drive' the time pattern in each of the analyses.
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