An Introduction to the Origins of Progress
Technology over the long run: zoom out to see how dramatically the world can change within a lifetime
Max Roserourworldindata.org
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Tom Standage • A Brief History of Motion: From the Wheel, to the Car, to What Comes Next
At the start of the sixth age of globalization, around 1820, the world was still overwhelmingly poor and rural. Perhaps 85 percent of the world’s population sustained itself through farming, almost all of it at a level at or near subsistence. Around 93 percent of the world lived in rural areas. Most people never ventured far from their birthplace,
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