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624 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780465019595
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the e...
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624 pages • first pub 2011 (view editions)
ISBN/UID: 9780465019595
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Publisher: Basic Books
Edition Pub Date: Not specified
Description
Before 1870, humanity lived in dire poverty, with a slow crawl of invention offset by a growing population. Then came a great shift: invention sprinted forward, doubling our technological capabilities each generation and utterly transforming the e...