Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
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Age of Invention: Why wasn't the Steam Engine Invented Earlier? Part III
Things will appear simple or easily replicable on the surface.
You’ll hear people say:
“Anyone could’ve made that with ChatGPT.”
But the more and better access everyone has to tools, the clearer it becomes that the final bottleneck to great work is not knowledge or information. Heck it’s not even intelligence—it’s that elusive, intangible, sublime
... See moreMore broadly, progress depends not just on the technology but on having the right preconditions — complementary innovations as well as cultural, economic, and political factors. If all it took to create the industrial revolution was the invention of steam power, the RomanEmpire would have done it.