Peter Van Valkenburgh
@valkenburgh
Executive Director @CoinCenter | “Writing a description for this thing for general audiences is bloody hard. There's nothing to relate it to.” Satoshi Nakamoto
Joined July 2009
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Excellent and deep thread on the history of great general purpose technologies and the companies that seemed poised to dominate them.
1/ Again and again, general-purpose technologies have performed the same three-act magic trick on the economy. From steam and electricity to the combustion engine and the railroads, the pattern is eerily similar.
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