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Technology

The tornado funnel of civilizations, the S-curve of technologies

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By Steven M. Peters Updated Published

Two tweets from Asymco‘s Horace Dediu can cover a lot of ground.

To read details, click on a tweet and blow up its chart. For a couple of benchmarks, USA is eight from the bottom in the top (civilizations) chart and iPhone (well, smartphone) is seven from the top in the bottom (technologies) chart.

My take: Nothing lasts forever, but things last shorter now.

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