Surge of a technological revolution

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[Perez] divides the surge of technological revolution in the following phases:

  1. Irruption
  2. Frenzy
  3. Crash
  4. Synergy
  5. Maturity

Examples of innovations which followed this pattern where:

Revolution Irruption Frenzy Crash Synergy Maturity
The industrial revolution 1770-1780 1780-1790 1797 1798-1812 1813-1829
The age of steam and railways 1830s 1840s 1847 1850-1857 1857-1873
The age of steal, electricity and heavy engineering 1875-1884 1884-1893 1893 1895-1905 1908-1918
The age of oil, automobiles and mass production 1908-1920 1920-1929 1929 1943-1959 1960-1974
e-Business 1994-1995 1996-2000 2001 2002-2007 ?


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