2minutebitcoin on Nostr: Technology is the only meaningful way of increasing prosperity in the world and ...
Technology is the only meaningful way of increasing prosperity in the world and fixing its problems.
This Tuberculosis White Plague killed a billion people - more than any war! No other political event (World Wars) had a greater statistical mortality rate effect.
Through technology - the discovery of antibiotics and sterilization - we completely solved it.
The impact of technology completely dwarfs every political thing that took place during that time period.
All the activities/ideologies we fought over turned out to not be as relevant as defeating Tuberculosis!
But there’s asymmetry in the history books - for every 1 page about an important event like curing Tuberculosis, theres 100+ pages for the World Wars - despite them being insignificant in relation.
Politics are overrated; Technology is underrated;
Bitcoin is counter-intuitively both - it is a political revolution re-ignited and ultimately enabled through a technological breakthrough.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove
This Tuberculosis White Plague killed a billion people - more than any war! No other political event (World Wars) had a greater statistical mortality rate effect.
Through technology - the discovery of antibiotics and sterilization - we completely solved it.
The impact of technology completely dwarfs every political thing that took place during that time period.
All the activities/ideologies we fought over turned out to not be as relevant as defeating Tuberculosis!
But there’s asymmetry in the history books - for every 1 page about an important event like curing Tuberculosis, theres 100+ pages for the World Wars - despite them being insignificant in relation.
Politics are overrated; Technology is underrated;
Bitcoin is counter-intuitively both - it is a political revolution re-ignited and ultimately enabled through a technological breakthrough.
-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove