A Brief History of Technology Booms
summary
Argues the real tech boom starts with speech about 100,000 years ago and ties concrete artifacts to leaps in capability clay tablet recipe for beer leads to Papyrus solves copying bottleneck movable type enables exponential book growth the telegraph trades bandwidth for latency and heralds instant news notes the surprising gaps 95,000 years then the rapid compressions 200 years shows what was built and how each invention actually changed how information moves
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- 0:00Start
- 1:38When Was the First Technology Boom
- 2:41First Tablet Computer
- 10:29Richest Companies in the World
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