The Modernity Machine
In the model I want to lay out, non-Western populations globally became technologically modern through the effects of scientific and technological revolutions acting on a landscape of regional early modernities that took shape 1200-1400. The science-technology strand, being far more weakly attached (if at all) to the European historical experience ... See more
Venkatesh Rao • The Modernity Machine
Bank of spiky takes:
Essay quality can be objectively measured.
AI editors will breed a generation of brilliant human writers.
Typewriters should be mandatory for writers.
Give kids remarkable tablets instead of iPads.
Take gibberish seriously if you want to improve your prose.
Your truest self is waiting for you in a pseudonym.
Write down every th
Technology over the long run: zoom out to see how dramatically the world can change within a lifetime
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