Great questions! Lucky for us, there are hundred+ books on the former and a good number on the latter. The first is a *founding* question of sociology! Discussed in Socy 101 classes. Sure! Let's do more research but don't need to invent "studies" for the way article suggests.https://twitter.com/TheAtlantic/status/1156260396317253632 …
I’ve read at least a dozen great book like that, just on the first question. Of course it’s a very meta-disciplinary question. It’s studied and and discussed like that. Given how interesting and central the industrial revolution is to the world, that’s what you’d expect.
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Sure. But drawing inferential similarities between it and the internet revolution? Or Roman tech advances? The invention and advance of agriculture? Historians and sociologists tend to be allergic to Jared Diamond-style treatments.
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For good reason. It's easy to forget forests are made up of trees and Jared Diamondism collapses compexity into a narrative simplicity at the cost of the rigor more serious disciplines demand. What "progress studies" is demanding is propaganda, not science
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