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Chinese blast furnaces and cast iron a thousand years before Europe What makes a technology general purpose? Mass production made goods cheap and most work meaningless Is industrial civilization a phase or the whole modern story? Data centers now use more electricity than some small countries The gap between invention and adoption is usually longer than people think Railroads imposed standardized time zones on people who liked local noon Child labor laws were resisted by families that needed the wages Resistance to new technology: were the Luddites actually wrong? Smog killed thousands of Londoners in 1952 and finally forced a law Standardized screws did more for industry than any single machine Industrial civilization runs on a fuel it cannot replace in time The factory clock disciplined workers long before any boss did Why coal and not wood decided which countries got rich first Does deindustrialization mean a country stops being an industrial civilization?

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