From Steam to Silicon: Patterns of Technological Revolutions
From agriculture to AI, each major economic revolution is driven by a new kind of value conversion: a way of transforming one type of value into another.
These revolutions are not defined by a single invention, but by a sequence of innovations: a core conversion, the infrastructure to scale and distribute various innovations, and the technologies that reduce the cost of distance and delays.
We shall analyse six major revolutions through this lens and show how each laid the groundwork for the nex...
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