DAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of Innovation & Discovery Before Modern Economic Growth
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2.4.1. In Everything Except Economic Growth, They Were Like Us It could have been different. The rate of growth of human technology could have been faster, back in the Agrarian Age. They were capable of astonishing feats of intellectual creativity and precision metalwork. The Anti-Kythera mechanism blows the mind of modern researchers—both the astronomy of Hipparchus that it is based on, and the instantiation of Hipparchus’s ideas in a precision-metalworked device that
DAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of Innovation & Discovery Before Modern Economic Growth
DAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of…
DAY 6: LECTURE NOTES: 2.4. Slow Pace of Innovation & Discovery Before Modern Economic Growth
2.4.1. In Everything Except Economic Growth, They Were Like Us It could have been different. The rate of growth of human technology could have been faster, back in the Agrarian Age. They were capable of astonishing feats of intellectual creativity and precision metalwork. The Anti-Kythera mechanism blows the mind of modern researchers—both the astronomy of Hipparchus that it is based on, and the instantiation of Hipparchus’s ideas in a precision-metalworked device that