The Tipping Point is that magical moment when a small trend becomes a huge epidemic, spreading really fast. Think of it like a flu strain; it starts slowly, infecting a few people, but then it suddenly takes off, and the number of infected people skyrockets.

Imagine it as a line on a graph. At first, it goes up a little, then suddenly shoots up like a rocket. That sharp turn is the Tipping Point. This kind of rapid growth also happens with new technology. For example, in 1984, Sharp made the first affordable fax machine. They sold around 80,000 in the first year, and the number kept going up every year. But in 1987, something amazing happened – it reached the Tipping Point, and sales went through the roof.

At the Tipping Point, so many people had fax machines that if you didn’t have one, you felt like you needed to get one. That’s when a big change happens, and the “infection” of an idea spreads like wildfire. It only becomes an epidemic when it reaches this special Tipping Point.