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| | The comparison seems rather good, don't you think? If Gutenberg's revolution was Pandora 2.0 and the Industrial Revolution 3.0 then the information age is Pandora 4.0.
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| | [Part of a series: The Age of Steam] Up until the 1780s, steam engines were used almost exclusively for pumping water. To the extent that they drove industrial machinery, it was almost always indirectly, by lifting water uphill from whence it could run back down and turn a waterwheel. Industry thus remained dispersed in villages...
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| NOTE: The Growth Economics Blog has moved sites. Click here to find this post at the new site. I'm not an economic historian, but like most growth economists I am an avid consumer of economic history. Maybe it's our version of "physics envy". Regardless, it isn't always obvious why growth economists look backwards so much...