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I bought both volumes last year and made a point of only reading them outside by sunlight. It's great stuff, very thought provoking. One of the many points tha
by rvense 5y ago
I bought both volumes last year and made a point of only reading them outside by sunlight.
It's great stuff, very thought provoking. One of the many points that has really stuck with me is how the invention of the typewriter allowed us to write five times faster... and as a result we now spend most of our time typing, somehow.
- sriacha 5y agoSounds similar to Jevon's Paradox [1], where consumption rises with increasing energy efficiency. Also, as transportation gets faster, commutes don't get shorter, people just move farther and farther from their workplace. I'm sure there are lots of other parallels too. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jevons_paradox