The Pattern of Progress

Convergence of Technologies

New technologies are often the result of a convergence of other technologies, innovations, and ideas. The interactive, London Underground style map below shows the connections, both direct and (in the case of the dotted line) indirect, between technologies described in ‘The Pattern of Progress: How Radically Cheaper, Easier, Faster, Better Technologies and Ideas Rapidly Change the World’.

Click any station on the map for information about each disruption