In each case there’s a longish incubation period where nothing much apparently changes for some years. Then there’s a rush of progress over little more than a couple of decades, leading to a new status quo where the old technology is completely displaced.
Uh, to me that looks like 4 examples of gradual progress, and 0 examples of explosions (that is, none that are more like fooms than gradual curves).
How are you defining “explosion” though? A plot of the number of splitting nuclei per unit time in a recently-detonated nuclear bomb looks like a gradual curve—if viewed on an appropriate timescale...
Uh, to me that looks like 4 examples of gradual progress, and 0 examples of explosions (that is, none that are more like fooms than gradual curves).
How are you defining “explosion” though? A plot of the number of splitting nuclei per unit time in a recently-detonated nuclear bomb looks like a gradual curve—if viewed on an appropriate timescale...