Just 19 days after Pokémon Go was released on 6 July 2016, 50 million people worldwide ran through red lights engrossed in their phones, ran confused into street signs, and besieged public places in search of the strongest monsters.
As Count Ferdinand von Zeppelin In 1909, when the first commercial airline was founded, laying the groundwork for the interconnectedness of our world, it took 64 years for the 50 millionth passenger to board an aircraft. Our chart shows that no matter how relevant an invention may be to humanity, other factors are more decisive for the dissemination of innovations. The most crucial factor is above all the size of the network in which an invention is spread.
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