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PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

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9. REACHING THE CEILING EVERYWHERE<br />

THE TIMING OF TECHNOLOGICAL GROWTH CURVES<br />

Unless otherwise indicated (as for the subway-related and the computerrelated<br />

graphs), the dates have been read off various drawings in<br />

Grubler’s The Rise and Fall of Infrastructures. Tunneling-through<br />

processes are not shown in Figure 9.2, (representative ones are shown in<br />

Appendix C, Figure 9.2.)<br />

Level of Saturation_<br />

<strong>10</strong>% 50% 90%<br />

First Industrial Growth Wave<br />

Canal construction–England 1745 1785 1824<br />

Canal construction–France 1813 1833 1853<br />

Canal construction–United States 1819 1835 1851<br />

Tunneling-through process:<br />

Canal construction–Russia (1st burst) 1781 1837 1892<br />

Second Industrial Growth Wave<br />

Railway construction–Germany 1853 1881 1909<br />

Railway construction–Austria 1858 1884 1909<br />

Substituting steam for sails–United Kingdom 1857 1885 1912<br />

Substituting steam for sails–United States 1849 1885 1921<br />

Substituting steam for sails–Austria/Hungary 1867 1890 1914<br />

Railway construction–United States 1865 1892 1919<br />

Railway construction–Worldwide 1866 1893 1921<br />

Substituting steam for sails–Worldwide 1868 1894 1921<br />

Substituting steam for sails–Germany 1874 1895 1915<br />

Substituting steam for sails–France 1868 1898 1928<br />

Substituting steam for sails–Russia 1872 1899 1926<br />

Substituting cars for horses–France 1903 1911 1919<br />

First wave of subway inaugurations -worldwide 2 1892 1915 1938<br />

Substituting cars for horses–United States 1911 1918 1925<br />

Substituting cars for horses–United Kingdom 19<strong>10</strong> 1919 1929<br />

Substituting cars for horses–Worldwide 1916 1924 1932<br />

Motor vehicles for horses (freight)–France 1916 1925 1934<br />

Tunneling-through process:<br />

Oil pipeline construction–United States 1907 1937 1967<br />

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