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iSGTW Image of the week - Technology adoption rates: historical perspective

Image of the week - Technology adoption rates: historical perspective Click on the image to see all the way up to 2005. Whereas the stove took well over 40 years to reach a 50% adoption rate in U.S. households, the microwave oven took 15, and the Internet a mere 10. How long before all the kids on the block are using grid computing? Image courtesy of Charlie Catlett, Argonne Nat'l Laboratory

Image of the week - Technology adoption rates: historical perspective

Click on the image to see all the way up to 2005.

Whereas the stove took well over 40 years to reach a 50% adoption rate in U.S. households, the microwave oven took 15, and the Internet a mere 10. How long before all the kids on the block are using grid computing?

Image courtesy of Charlie Catlett, Argonne Nat'l Laboratory
Posted on May 6 2009 1:00am

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