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The Importance of Critical Technology Lists
Francis Bacon said in 1620 that no empire, sect or star appears to have exercised a greater power and influence on human affairs than printing gunpowder. We've been doing it since Francis Bacon's time and even earlier. It's hard to sort of find that strategic insight, but with someone like Bacon hundreds of years from now, we can look back and really see like, oh, he got it before most of the rest of the world did.