Every artificial object ever launched into space — from Sputnik in 1957 to the present — catalogued by Jonathan McDowell. Includes launch date, country, object type (payload, rocket body, debris, component), orbit class, and current status.

Historical pricing for cloud storage and compute services (AWS S3, GCP, Azure) from launch to present. Documents the dramatic decline in cloud infrastructure costs over two decades.

Share of US households or population using key technologies over time: telephone, radio, television, personal computer, internet, mobile phone, smartphone. Each technology wave adopted faster than the last.

Cross-country Historical Adoption of Technology (CHAT) — an unbalanced panel dataset with adoption data for over 100 technologies in more than 150 countries from 1800 to 2008. Compiled by Diego Comin and Bart Hobijn at the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

The cost of DNA sequencing has fallen faster than Moore's Law. Since 2001, the National Human Genome Research Institute (NHGRI) has tracked costs at its funded sequencing centers — from $95 million per genome in 2001 to around $500 today. A dramatic inflection occurred in 2008 with the arrival of next-generation sequencing, compressing a decade of cost reduction into a single year.