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Cipolla's Before the Industrial Revolution (again).

• Sealy 13y ago
  Hey Paul, Do the lessons economic history that these books teach still have relevance today? Technology (as a term to describe innovation) back then would have a very different meaning to technology today.
  • read 13y ago
    The specific instance of the technology might have changed but general phenomena surrounding people's perceptions of technology certainly haven't.
  • pg 13y ago
    See the last section of http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html http://paulgraham.com/wealth.html.
    • Sealy 13y ago
      Thats an interesting read. Getting a technical developer to think as holistically as you laid out in that essay is a challenge. Its a challenge that I find very difficult, when I just want to dig into code, I have to continually tell myself to step back and see the bigger picture.