A century, compressed.

It feels like innovation is moving at breakneck speed. Is it? Here is a century of evidence.

Milestones

All milestones as a list

    From 1 in 10 homes to 8 in 10

    Data and source

    Time to 100 million users

    Data and sources

    Six measured trends

    Each chart uses one public dataset. Switch to the log scale to compare rates of change.

    The road to large language models

    Data

    Caveats

    What the data can and cannot support.

    Sources