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    1. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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      I use the Douglas Adams definitionpic.twitter.com/SWnbHBXdb9

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    2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      Yea that's a piece of culture, but tech and even our culture's response to tech != culture. For instance, changing attitudes toward civil rights isn't really that related to tech at all.

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    3. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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      Hmm I don’t know. I think of it as part of the response to the military-industrial complex of the 50s, which was primarily a post-ww2 tech based forcing function. Cold War tech scene —> Organization Man —> hippies —> civil rights. I’m a pretty strong tech determinist.

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    4. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      On this topic, do you know any business cultural histories worth checking out? Like a survey from early mercantilism to today.

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    5. Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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      This is the closest I’ve read for the US.https://www.amazon.com/Land-Promise-Economic-History-United/dp/0061834815 …

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    6. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      Nice - I liked American Genesis for a similar take:https://www.amazon.com/American-Genesis-Invention-Technological-Enthusiasm/dp/0670814784/ …

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      Replying to @varma_ashwin97 @vgr

      Yea, it was seemingly just looking at the highlights of the mega infra types of stuff. There's also a ton of military tech histories out there.

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    10. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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      I've actually never read a general military / Cold War tech history book because I grew up obsessed and read too narrow ones. I did enjoy this DARPA history, though I wish it was more tech focused than military:https://www.amazon.com/Pentagons-Brain-Uncensored-Americas-Top-Secret/dp/0316371661 …

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      Venkatesh Rao‏ @vgr Jun 2
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      Is there one? It always seems to be a chapter or two in stories that cut through. Like Loonshots has a few chapters on it. It’s just too short relative to most tech development cycles.

      5:22 PM - 2 Jun 2020
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        2. Nick Pinkston  🌐‏ @NickPinkston Jun 2
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          Yea interesting - a quick look doesn't reveal anything close to this. Good call @varma_ashwin97. I feel like I grew up with stuff like this, but it doesn't seem like there is, and I agree that's a history that should really be written.

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