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PREDICTIONS – 10 Years Later - Santa Fe Institute

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APPENDIX C<br />

Annual<br />

registrations<br />

6,000,000<br />

THE JAPAN CAR MARKET WAS FILLED IN TWO STAGES<br />

5,000,000<br />

4,000,000<br />

3,000,000<br />

2,000,000<br />

1,000,000<br />

0<br />

1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 20<strong>10</strong><br />

APPENDIX FIGURE <strong>10</strong>.1 Data and S-curve fits for new car registrations in Japan.<br />

The first curve (solid line) is based on data only up to 1976. The second<br />

curve (intermittent line) represents recent data (white dots). ∗<br />

∗ The first half of this graph (up to 1976) was first published by Cesare Marchetti, in<br />

“The Automobile in a System Context: The Past 80 <strong>Years</strong> and the Next 20 <strong>Years</strong>,”<br />

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, vol. 23 (1983): 3-23. Copyright<br />

1983 by Elsevier Science Publishing Co., Inc. Reprinted by permission of the publisher.<br />

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