Finland Reached Peak Horse Only in the 1950s

Finland Reached Peak Horse Only in the 1950s:

Matt Edgar:

The pace of change: Finally, as David Edgerton shows in his solid and empirical book “The Shock of the Old”, the use-histories of technologies are far more elongated than we’d expect. Finland, for example, reached peak horse only in the 1950s. When will we hit peak transistor? We cannot possibly know until some time after we get there.