INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION:

Quote for today: The Anti-Industrial Revolution
[O]bserve that in all the propaganda of the ecologists—amidst all their appeals to nature and pleas for "harmony with nature"—there is no discussion of man's needs and the requirements of his survival. Man is treated as if he were an
Why The Industrial Revolution?
One not-so-new paper caught my eye recently, entitled "Was an Industrial Revolution Inevitable? Economic Growth Over the Very Long Run". I loved the typo at the NBER site that turned the last line of the abstract into a punchline:
The Industrial Revolution: Past and Future
Following common practice, I use the term industrial revolution to refer to this Such inequality is a product of the industrial revolution. The course of the industrial revolution, our term for the ition from stable to
Johnny Appleseed and the Industrial Revolution: You Are What You Drink
As 1900 approached, and the Industrial Revolution began to pick up steam (yuk yuk yuk), suddenly it was something of a problem to have a population that was slightly sauced all the time. The answer? Coffee. While coffee had been around
Entrepreneurial Manifesto
Hugh Macleod has recently been inviting people to write manifestos of 500 words or less on subjects they are passionate about. Some of them are a bit touchy, others don’t ring true to my ear. However he points today to Rod Call’s
Timing
By contrast most of the developments since the Industrial Revolution have, in Mr. Osborne’s view, led to stratified, intolerant, self-obsessed, materialistic societies dominated by corporations and, in their relations with the rest of
Why No Industrial Revolution in China? From the "Journal of
Almost every element usually regarded by historians as a major contributory cause to the Industrial Revolution in north-western Europe was also present in China. There had even been a revolution in the relations between social classes,
THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION, FINALLY
The cobbler's children no longer have to go barefoot, and the industrial revolution can finally arrive for scalable computing. However the market develops, I know my wife, Laurie, is relieved that Project Blackbox is finally, well,
Catching up, Sunday Headlines, etc.
Busy, busy week this last week. Insanely busy, especially as my company’s year end is coming up December 31st, and I want to close my 2006 books and file my accounts very early in 2007. Thankfully, things are on track for me to be able
Kicking Around The Thought of the Third Industrial Revolution
Catching up on my Scientific American reading, I came across an interesting article in the December, 2006 issue related to the Industrial Revolution. In Rodger Doyle's article, "Not So Revolutionary: Recent Advances are not Third
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