That’s just America and the Industrial Revolution.
It’s… really not restricted to that. Not even broadly.
A new tech emerges, not perfect but good for the times, and then the industry around it has enough profits to delay and deny better future tech from ever taking over.
… what do you think the pace of technology progress was like before the industrial revolution?
We talking antiquity, medieval, age of sail, or early modern? Because all of those have vastly different progress, for example the medieval period saw vast leaps in metallurgy and chemistry while antiquity was had a shit tonne of early mechanical engineering going on.
The point is that all of that pales to the pace of technological progress during and after the industrial revolution, which casts doubts on the uniqueness or efficacy of the narrative of ‘industrialists are strangling technological progress’.
It’s… really not restricted to that. Not even broadly.
… what do you think the pace of technology progress was like before the industrial revolution?
We talking antiquity, medieval, age of sail, or early modern? Because all of those have vastly different progress, for example the medieval period saw vast leaps in metallurgy and chemistry while antiquity was had a shit tonne of early mechanical engineering going on.
The point is that all of that pales to the pace of technological progress during and after the industrial revolution, which casts doubts on the uniqueness or efficacy of the narrative of ‘industrialists are strangling technological progress’.