gwern comments on The innovation tree, overshadowed in the innovation forest - Less Wrong

12 Post author: Stuart_Armstrong 25 February 2014 02:11PM

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Comment author: ChristianKl 25 February 2014 04:21:09PM 8 points [-]

Don't underrate walkmans. They were behind the Iranian revolution. Tape recordings allowed a cleric to spread his message to a much larger audience.

Comment author: gwern 25 February 2014 06:57:36PM 5 points [-]

I was going to say... aren't the USSR and Iran two of the paradigmatic cases for new media technologies helping enable revolutions?