Medieval technology and social change

Book • 1962

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Dwarkesh Patel

as a book he was reading to interrogate if he really understood the concepts.

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Dwarkesh Patel

as a book about how technology like stirrups affected society.

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Dan Shipper

as one of the books in front of him and described as being about how the stirrup changed everything in the Middle Ages.

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Cal Newport

as an example of technological determinism.

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Linus Lee

as one of the books he wants an AI to recommend.

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Dwarkesh Patel

as a book he recently read, focusing on the impact of stirrups on medieval society.

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