A century, compressed.

a-century-compressed.vercel.app · 2026-10-02 · by Long Nguyen ·generic
Is innovation really accelerating? A sourced look at how fast technology reached people from 1926 to 2026, with measured trends in AI, chips, genomics, solar, space and electric cars.

A century, compressed.

Milestones

All milestones as a list

From 1 in 10 homes to 8 in 10

Data and source

Time to 100 million users

Data and sources

Six measured trends

Each chart uses one public dataset. Switch to the log scale to compare rates of change.

LinearLog

The road to large language models

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Data

Caveats

What the data can and cannot support.

Sources

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