Natural innovative potential comes partly from the extent of cargo transport means that don’t fight gravity.
Flat not fast rail. Canals. Wharves. Navigatable rivers. Dirigibles.
After a dark age technology will be revived by the thalassocracy. Of course then the usurers arrive and the thalassocracy turns to intrigue and nastiness. But the …
Natural innovative potential comes partly from the extent of cargo transport means that don’t fight gravity.
Flat not fast rail. Canals. Wharves. Navigatable rivers. Dirigibles.
After a dark age technology will be revived by the thalassocracy. Of course then the usurers arrive and the thalassocracy turns to intrigue and nastiness. But the Roman Roads didn’t have what it takes to create an Industrial Revolution. Whereas Carthage may have had the right stuff had they not been crushed.
But see the British. With their canal mania 1790-1830, and their invention of rail. See the American with all their navigatible rivers. These two the greatest innovators in the world at least until German unification.
Our friends Adolph and Dwight made a big mistake with highways. Roads can’t cut it. Transport CRACK. The UK and America have sidelined their canals and stagnated their railways.
That being the case they will find it hard to keep up with China and Russia if these guys have more rail. Russia seems for now to have won the arms race. These things need not be thought of as entirely unrelated.
You survive a global disaster in the mountains. But technology can only be revived at waters edge.
Natural innovative potential comes partly from the extent of cargo transport means that don’t fight gravity.
Flat not fast rail. Canals. Wharves. Navigatable rivers. Dirigibles.
After a dark age technology will be revived by the thalassocracy. Of course then the usurers arrive and the thalassocracy turns to intrigue and nastiness. But the Roman Roads didn’t have what it takes to create an Industrial Revolution. Whereas Carthage may have had the right stuff had they not been crushed.
But see the British. With their canal mania 1790-1830, and their invention of rail. See the American with all their navigatible rivers. These two the greatest innovators in the world at least until German unification.
Our friends Adolph and Dwight made a big mistake with highways. Roads can’t cut it. Transport CRACK. The UK and America have sidelined their canals and stagnated their railways.
That being the case they will find it hard to keep up with China and Russia if these guys have more rail. Russia seems for now to have won the arms race. These things need not be thought of as entirely unrelated.
You survive a global disaster in the mountains. But technology can only be revived at waters edge.