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<blockquote data-quote="Kannik" data-source="post: 9289775" data-attributes="member: 984">From the National Museum of American History (a branch of the Smithsonian): Refrigerators were adopted faster than just about any other technological innovation of the 20th century. They made their debut in the teens, and 30 years later, over half of Americans had them.If it took 30 years for half of the US to have them, and it was one of the fastest technological innovation of the 20th century, then we can assume that most others were on the order of 15-20 years.Re, toilets, the one source I quickly found stated it was 50% in 1940, then 66% 1950, and 85% in 1960... so still multi decade.Generative AI in 2 years is orders of magnitude faster.&nbsp; (And to forestall future comments: I am not saying that no other thing ever got adopted this quickly -- I am pointing out that this has the potential of causing a lot of very rapid economic calamity for many people, especially painful given that it was their very labour that is being exploited to annul their ability to earn a living from it.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kannik, post: 9289775, member: 984"] From the National Museum of American History (a branch of the Smithsonian): [I]Refrigerators were adopted faster than just about any other technological innovation of the 20th century. They made their debut in the teens, and 30 years later, over half of Americans had them.[/I] If it took 30 years for half of the US to have them, and it was one of the fastest technological innovation of the 20th century, then we can assume that most others were on the order of 15-20 years. Re, toilets, the one source I quickly found stated it was 50% in 1940, then 66% 1950, and 85% in 1960... so still multi decade. Generative AI in 2 years is orders of magnitude faster. (And to forestall future comments: I am not saying that no other thing ever got adopted this quickly -- I am pointing out that this has the potential of causing a lot of very rapid economic calamity for many people, especially painful given that it was their very labour that is being exploited to annul their ability to earn a living from it.) [/QUOTE]

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