The pace at which the economy puts the technology to work. It runs slower than the capability clock, and the money was committed against the faster one. Chapters 3, 11.
From The AI Compute Race. Read the book
The book uses this term in a sense of its own.
Where the book uses it
- Chapter 3 — The Missing Researcher
The dated promise of an AI that does its own research, what the laboratories have published, and what the public record can and cannot yet check.
- Chapter 11 — What the Machine Has to Earn
The revenue the buildout needs against the revenue it has, on whose clock the gap must close, and the two ceilings on what AI can earn.
Related terms
From the glossary of The AI Compute Race.
How to cite this page
Dryburgh, Lee S. “Adoption clock.” In The AI Compute Race. DRYBURGH. https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/adoption-clock (accessed 2026-11-01).
BibTeX
@misc{dryburgh-adoption-clock-2026,
author = {Dryburgh, Lee S.},
title = {{Adoption clock}},
howpublished = {In \emph{The AI Compute Race}, DRYBURGH},
year = {2026},
url = {https://dryburgh.com/vol1/glossary/adoption-clock},
note = {Accessed 2026-11-01}
}