PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

APPENDIX C
THE DESTRUCTION OF THRESHING MACHINES
APPENDIX FIGURE 6.4 Cumulative attacks on threshing machines during 1830
in England by farm laborers opposing the new technology. The wave of destruction
lasted only one month but proceeded “naturally” as evidenced by the
S-shaped curve. ∗
∗ Adapted from a graph by Cesare Marchetti in “On Society and Nuclear Energy,” Commission
of the European Communities, report EUR 12675 EN, Luxemburg, 1990.
Reprinted by permission of the Commission of the European Communities.
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