The cost of 66 different technologies over time
The cost of each technology is expressed in different units, chosen for visualization purposes.
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- Adoption of communication technologiesAbsolute numbers
- Adoption of communication technologies per 100 people
- Annual number of human visits to space
- Annual number of objects launched into space
- Chess ability of the best computers
- Computation used to train notable artificial intelligence systems
- Computational capacity of the fastest supercomputers
- Cost of sequencing a full human genome
- Cost of space launches to low Earth orbit
- Cost per billion pairs of DNA sequencing
- GPU computational performance per dollar
- Historical cost of computer memory and storage
- Landline Internet subscriptions
- Landline Internet subscriptions per 100 people
- Landline phone subscriptions
- Landline phone subscriptions per 100 people
- Levelized cost of energy by technology
- Mobile phone subscriptions
- Mobile phone subscriptions per 100 people
- Moore's law: The number of transistors per microprocessor
- Non-commercial flight distance records
- Number of people using the Internet
- Price changes in consumer goods and services in the United States
- Quantum bits per processor
- Registered vehicles per 1,000 people
- Share of US adults who use the Internet, by age
- Share of United States households using specific technologies
- Share of people in range of 4G mobile network
- Share of people who own a mobile phone, by sex
- Share of population in range of mobile network, by capability
- Share of the population using the Internet
- Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices
- Solar (photovoltaic) panel prices vs. cumulative capacity
- Technology and infrastructure diffusion in the United Kingdom
- Technology and infrastructure diffusion in the United States