⬆️ >> This illustrates perhaps better than any other example that the device precedes the infrastructure.

And thus, @asymco has decisively settled the debate over which came first: chicken or egg.

A comment in the linked post talks about the failure of #US railroad and chalks it up to the rise of trucking, but the latter had its own infrastructure.

Look at rail infrastructure in #Europe and #Asia, particularly the dense network in #India. The US just didn't have enough "devices"

#worthReading

(@PSiReN)

#Still #WorthReading... #IF #IT's #YourKindOfThing...

And, #DontForget... #Websites...! #StillQuiteCool...

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https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/impactofsocialsciences/2022/12/06/the-lovelace-effect-ai-generated-texts-should-lead-us-to-re-value-creativity-in-academic-writing/

⬆️ @Daojoan

>> This is where it cracks

#Amen #WorthReading

>> The economic damage is real and vast… Debt-soaked countries face even more uncertainty as investor confidence tanks. The global supply chain, already battered, begins to seize.

>> The myth was that… #Trump, #Orban, #Meloni, #Milei, #Modi—pick your avatar—would together redraw the map… But Trump doesn't share. He demands fealty. There is no Trump Doctrine that makes space for others. There is only Trump.

https://www.theindex.media/trumps-trade-war-just-nuked-his-international-fan-club/