Ten years before Thomas Edison invented the first commercially viable incandescent lightbulb in 1878, few people could have imagined its existence or how it would improve people’s lives within a few decades.
Before Henry Ford launched the Model–T in 1908, cars were reserved for only the most prosperous members of society. Owning a car was an unimaginable luxury for the vast majority of Americans in 1907, when fewer than 2 in 1,000 people drove a car. Yet, within a decade that number grew to 50, and within two decades it grew to 200. Today it is estimated to be around 840.6
Just a few years before Steve Jobs and Apple launched the first touchscreen smartphone in 2007, hardly anyone could have envisioned where it would take us in the 15 years since.
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