This graphic from the New York Times has already been on several sites I read, but it’s too delicious to pass up. Click for a larger version.
They called it “comsumption spreads faster today”, but the radio was adopted as quickly as computers and the internet. Dishwashers have the low slope of the older technologies like electricity and phones that required infrastructure be built. Maybe because it’s not so easy to remove a cabinet and plumb it? I can’t believe 38% of households still don’t have one.
The dips in the curves of autos and phones during the great depression and clothes washers during World War II are interesting.
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