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Consumer adoption S-curve compression — new category reaches 100M users?

As of 2 Oct · 23:18 UTCResolves 31 Dec 20280 movers0 pressure moments
Timeline A · Timeline AReality
50%
Crowd 55%Gap 0

By end of 2028, a new tech category hits 100 million users faster than any previous technology wave. AI video generation, autonomous agents, or a similar tool reaches this scale in under 3 years from public launch—matching or beating ChatGPT's 2-year sprint to 100M. Adoption happens across multiple regions, income levels, and age groups, not just early adopters.

Timeline B · Timeline BReality
50%
Crowd 45%Gap 0

By end of 2028, no single new tech category has reached 100 million users in this accelerated timeframe. Instead, adoption spreads more slowly across multiple competing products—Sora, competitors' video tools, new agent platforms—fragmenting the user base. Each tool individually stays below or around 50M users, with growth curves flattening faster than ChatGPT's did.

crowd 55
The quiet paththe one nobody’s watching

Widespread AI harm event or regulatory shutdown kills adoption of the entire new category before scale is possible.

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Where reality is heading

A, 80% bandCrowd today
Projected reality support to 31 Dec 2028A rises from 41% to about 52% with an 80% band of 33 to 71. B falls from 53% to about 44%. Quiet path near 4 to 6%. Crowd today: A 55%.100%7550250Crowd today · A 55%A ~52%B ~44%P ~4%NowJan 2027Jan 202831 Dec 2028
Reality crosses toward A in early 2028. Today’s crowd number sits at the top of A’s band, possible but optimistic. View as table

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