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Since the early twentieth century, the world is undergoing dramatic and unprecedented change. It's going to be very hard to extrapolate from the failure of any
by applecore 12y ago
Since the early twentieth century, the world is undergoing dramatic and unprecedented change. It's going to be very hard to extrapolate from the failure of any past system or experience into the twenty-first century.
- gerbal 12y agoThough, that a system like this emerged in another period of dramatic and unprecedented change suggests analogy to today.
- eru 12y agoWhy start in the twentieth century? See https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution, or https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolution https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military_Revolution And that's just two examples from Europe alone.