Technological Adoption

 The rising speed of Technological Adoption

 

-Technology progress is not the only thing rising to an exponential rate. The rate at which newly commercialized technologies get adopted by consumers is also getting faster too. 

Visualising Technology Adoption 

- Today's dynamic chart comes to us from our world in Data, and it allows you to compare the adoption rates of new technologies over the period of more than one century. 

A blast from the past

To get the full impact of the chart, it's worth removing more modern technologies like smartphones, social media, tablets, cellular phones, and the internet from the list. 

New Adoption speeds

-Now here's chart with amny older technologies removed keep in mind that x axis has changed to a much shorter time span (~65 years). Microwaves, Cellphones, Smartphones, social media, tablets and other inventions from the modern era all show fast-rising adoption rates.