alextingle wrote: post #5

Where's the historical evidence for this? Can I draw a graph like that for steam engines? The plough? Telephones? Without that it's just an optimistic line on a whiteboard that means "there won't be another dot.com crash, this time it's to real".

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Railway_Mania

Re: The Draper Curve

#13

Post by sloanie » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 2:56 PM UTC

Was there, mans a genius. Enough said.

Re: The Draper Curve

#14

Post by rogerallen » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 3:45 PM UTC

Did he really claim ownership of the idea? Sounds exactly like what Moore pointed out in 1991 via "Crossing the Chasm". http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crossing_the_Chasm

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