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On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales
A matter of choice: People and possibilities in the age of AI
it may be better to call the last 70,000 years the Anthropocene epoch: the epoch of humanity. For during these millennia Homo sapiens became the single most important agent of change in the global ecology.5
Yuval Noah Harari • Homo Deus
Human evolution and the ages of globalization have been fundamentally reshaped by natural changes in the Earth’s physical geography.
Jeffrey D. Sachs • The Ages of Globalization: Geography, Technology, and Institutions
This vast realm of geographical ignorance reduced European activity in the Outer World to an archipelago of settlements, mines and trading depots connected by a skein of pathways kept open only by constant effort.
John Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
On the larger stage of Eurasian or global economic competition, the maritime sector of the European economy, for all its success in developing the commodity trades across the Atlantic, and in finding customers among the expatriate Europeans in the Americas, was simply too small, too restricted in economic and demographic capacity, to aspire to
... See moreJohn Darwin • After Tamerlane: The Rise and Fall of Global Empires, 1400-2000
On Europe’s Inner Asian frontier, demographic expansion long seemed as hobbled as it was in mainland North America until the 1750s.