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Read the Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter. It is the Bible on this topic.
by internaut 10y ago
Read the Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter. It is the Bible on this topic.
- alistproducer2 10y agoThanks a lot for recommending this. I've been thinking a lot about this subject.
- internaut 10y agoI was just talking about this subject a couple of days ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535146 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12535146 Actually a lot of my posts are related to this subject in some way. Are you aware that contrary to popular perception, many of Silicon Valley's most influential people believe we are in a stagnation since the early 70s? This is called the Technological Stagnation Hypothesis. The essence is that outside of computation there has been a reduction in technological progress.