Stuart_Armstrong comments on Innovation's low-hanging fruits: on the demand or supply sides? - Less Wrong

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Comment author: Stuart_Armstrong 28 February 2014 03:21:39PM -1 points [-]

There's the general interesting point that information technology allows the recreation of "lost" technologies, or at least close substitute. If we had the internet before the flush toilet, then we probably would have invented the toilet before long.