I most recently ran across this really lovely graph about the
adoption of new technologies since 1900 in the United States on the
Visualizing Economics site (plus here's the
NYTimes source; and, also the creator's website, Nicholas Felton's
feltron.com)...
![](http://www.visualizingeconomics.com/wp-content/uploads/history-of-products.gif)
What's especially interesting is looking at both the pace of adoption and whether it's gotten faster, and at decomposing the adoption to the level of multiple generations of a product. For instance, 8086 PC's versus 286 versus 386 and 486, etc. Or different videogame consoles, etc. Even more interesting is seeing this
century-long diffusion plotted for the worldwide population of Earth, not just the rich US.
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