New Technology Diffusion
Time for new technologies to reach 25% of the U.S. Population

- Household electricity (1873)—46 years
- Telephone (1875)—35 years
- Automobile (1885)—55 years
- Airplane travel (1903)—54 years
- Radio (1906)—22 years
- Television (1925)—26 years
- Videocassette recorder (1952)—34 years
- Personal computer (1975)—15 years
- Cellular phone—13 years
- World Wide Web—7 years

Birth & Death of IT companies
- Aatari(19972-1996)
- Commodore(19976-1994)
- Compaq(1983-2001)
- CompuServe(1969-1998)
- Control Data(1957-1989)
- DEC(1957-1998)
- Hayes(1969-1998)
- Lotus(1982-1995)
- Netscape(1994-1998)
- Tandem(1976-1997)
- Tandon(1978-1994)

The tyranny of increasing the pace of technological change makes the gap between the consumers market and technological developments.