🤔 What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2,000 years ago rather than 200? (And why didn't it?) | article by James Pethokoukis, Jason Crawford - Upcarta

🤔 What if the Industrial Revolution had started 2,000 years ago rather than 200? (And why didn't it?)

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Jan 11, 2022
#Technology #Philosophy

James Pethokoukis

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Jason Crawford

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy · Jan 12, 2022

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Interesting read and pointers; I've always wondered why the Roman Empire did not industrialize