The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US

From The lifespans of technological adoptions in the US:

I can't stress enough how important this work done by Horace Dediu is. This chart comes from a must-watch presentation he gave in 2016 in London: The Innovator's Stopwatch: When Timing is Everything

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This is one of the many passages and charts I find in books and articles on a daily basis. They span many disciplines, including:

market trends (and, occasionally, history)
emerging technologies and deep tech
startups and venture capital
corporate strategy and business dynamics
product development and marketing
finance and (mainly behavioral) economics
cognitive psychology and neuroscience
the future of work and career

I occasionally add a personal note to them.

The whole collection is available here.

Alessandro Perilli
At the bleeding edge of technology, helping world innovators and dreamers.

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In February 2023, I launched Synthetic Work - A (mostly serious) newsletter to understand how AI is changing the world.

In March 2023, I announced Fake Show, a synthetic podcast about the atrocious things that people in large tech vendors do (to their customers and to each other).

I am a contrarian thinker with 23 years of business and product experience in the enterprise IT industry.
I have a track record in identifying (before most) hugely profitable markets and new use cases for emerging technologies. I also have a track record in identifying over-hyped emerging technologies that eventually have little to no business impact.

So far, I've been a:

Tech executive, focused on business and product strategy for Red Hat
Advisory Board member for the European Commission initiative HORIZON CLOUD
Global analyst, leading research in private cloud computing for Gartner
Entrepreneur in the media industry as the founder of virtualization.info
Advisor to Fortune Global 2000 companies
Co-author of the Cloud Computing Risk Assessment for the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA)
Author of a cybersecurity book for Arnoldo Mondadori Editore
Creator of one of the first ethical hacking trainings in the world for Mondadori Informatica

Also, I am:

Founder of the H+ research project about human body augmentation technologies
Inventor: US Patent 10778701 - Mitigating cyber-attacks by automatically coordinating responses from cyber-security tools
Keynote speaker for 20 years in a row
Art collector and former corporate sponsor for Tate