What is the technological wonder of the present age? The smartphone? A particular infrastructure project? I know what they were in the 1580s or the 1780s (see my next newsletter), but not sure about now.
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Replying to @antonhowes
The Internet. Smartphone vastly increased utility of it for some use cases, but it would be “steam engine” levels of important even if we had never figured smartphones out.
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Would also accept arguments for shipping containers, spreadsheets, statistical process control, reinforced concrete, plastic (and at least 3 things you can do with plastic), APIs, email (or messaging more broadly, but email will be around in 100 years), etc.
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