Beside the Nelson Monument on Glasgow Green (you can't miss it its the 144 foot tall pointy thing!) is this boulder. It marks the approximate location where, in 1765, James Watt had his revolutionary idea for improving the efficiency of steam engines by using a separate condenser, and in doing so, he helped kick-start the industrial revolution.
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How Sicilian Sulfur Fueled the Industrial Revolution
🔗 https://daily.jstor.org/how-sicilian-sulfur-fueled-the-industrial-revolution/
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Back in April I mentioned the terrace of cottages on the Bridgewater Canal and the history page I'm building about it. The article mentions "Cotton's Bridge" and includes an old map showing its location.
We were at the cottage back in May and I took these two images of the site of the bridge. You have to be travelling north, having just emerged from Dutton Tunnel to appreciate the narrowing of the canal at the site of the old bridge.
As you will work out the cottages you see to the left of one of the images are part of the terrace numbered 7-12.
https://gregchapman.uk/sundry/canalsidecottages/#number
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Historical events are by default extraordinary events; they are incomparable as examples.
Unless everyone's daily life is being monitored and recorded - I'm not sure I want that.
Miners, change, Nikolay Alekseevich Kasatkin, 1895
I think this is really interesting and I'm not sure why or how it has this sort of ghostly thing happening, like we are in a different but neighboring dimension. Maybe we look like that to the miners, that's why they're staring at us with glowing eyes. Or it's a haunted mine, and hasn't been in operation for years, and we're witnessing the moment before a big cave-in when hundreds of miners died. Agh! holding our heads as the ghost vision hits us. There's injustice here and it's up to us to tell the truth about what happened.😁
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I wrote a follow-up text to my previous thinking about AI, digital civilization, and what may come after the current hype cycle.
It is a attempt to frame AI not as a new industrial revolution, but as the final acceleration of the digital one and maybe the beginning of something more homeostatic.
https://medium.com/@igisho/the-last-industrial-revolution-28189b0df5d7
#AI #Technology #Philosophy #DigitalCivilization #IndustrialRevolution #Homeostasis
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