Tag: History
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RareRead #006: The Invention of Buses
We tend to think of invention as the creation of something new. A machine, a device, a technology that did not exist before. But some inventions are less about making new things than discovering new…
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RareRead #004: The Modernity Machine
We tend to locate the birth of the modern world in the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, or the Scientific Revolution. Venkatesh Rao asks us to rewind the clock to the 13th century and reconsider what actually…