According to Chapter 13: "Necessity's Mother" of Guns, Germs, and Steel by Jared Diamond, what are the reasons that promote an invention's...

The answer
to this question can be found beginning on p. 247 of .  There, Diamond
begins to list four factors that, in his view, help to determine whether a society accepts a
given invention.

The first of these factors is, in Diamonds words,
relative economic advantage compared with existing technology.  In other words, how much
better the invention is than what the people already have.  If an invention is much better than
what they have, they will accept it.  If, on the other hand, the invention will not help much,
they will not accept it.  This is why, Diamond says, the natives of Mexico did not accept the
wheel when it...