SilasBarta comments on Open Thread: January 2010 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: SilasBarta 02 January 2010 11:32:21PM 0 points [-]

And if not then, by the time they had extensive telegraph or telephone networks, basic computation, and typewriters, about 1890 (sic). Why didn't it? Numerous barriers, and their overcoming since then counts as political and scientific advances.