How Air-Conditioning Invented the Modern World
The Atlantic
How barbed wire created the modern definition of private property. How air-conditioning invented the modern world. And does technology inherently create superstar effects and inequality? Interesting interview with economist Tim Harford, the author of a new book on history’s greatest breakthroughs.
From Weekly Filet #249, in September 2017.
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