{"id":33682,"date":"2013-11-25T23:51:44","date_gmt":"2013-11-25T23:51:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/stoweboyd-the-pace-of-technology-adoption-is\/"},"modified":"2018-12-06T13:14:43","modified_gmt":"2018-12-06T20:14:43","slug":"stoweboyd-the-pace-of-technology-adoption-is","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/stoweboyd-the-pace-of-technology-adoption-is\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-33682 gallery-columns-3 gallery-size-thumbnail'><figure class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<div class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/stoweboyd-the-pace-of-technology-adoption-is\/attachment\/33683\/'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"100\" height=\"100\" src=\"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-content\/uploads\/tumblr_mwu64iPMyF1qcz5rmo1_640-100x100.gif\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/div><\/figure>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/stoweboyd.tumblr.com\/post\/68089017160\">stoweboyd<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.hbr.org\/2013\/11\/the-pace-of-technology-adoption-is-speeding-up\/\">The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up &#8211; Rita McGrath<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The chart above, created by\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/imagepages\/2008\/02\/10\/opinion\/10op.graphic.ready.html\">Nicholas Felton\u00a0<\/a>of the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/http\/\/www.nytimes.com\/\"><em>New York Times<\/em><\/a>, shows how long it took various categories of product, from electricity to the Internet, to achieve different penetration levels in US households.\u00a0 It took decades for the telephone to reach 50% of households, beginning before 1900.\u00a0 It took five years or less for cellphones to accomplish the same penetration in 1990.\u00a0 As you can see from the chart, innovations introduced more recently are being adopted more quickly.\u00a0 By analogy, firms with competitive advantages in those areas will need to move faster to capture those opportunities that present themselves.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>stoweboyd: The Pace of Technology Adoption is Speeding Up &#8211; Rita McGrath The chart above, created by\u00a0Nicholas Felton\u00a0of the\u00a0New York Times, shows how long it took various categories of product, from electricity to the Internet, to achieve different penetration levels in US households.\u00a0 It took decades for the telephone to reach 50% of households, beginning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"gallery","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[],"tags":[1539],"class_list":["post-33682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-gallery","hentry","tag-emergent-digital-practices","post_format-post-format-gallery"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6PWot-8Lg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33682"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":33684,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33682\/revisions\/33684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rafaelfajardo.com\/portfolio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}