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A comment on Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 100 yrs in all fields?. Parent comment

Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by ForFreedom on Monday October 17, 2016 @03:34AM (#12723245)
From 1900 till date it was luxuries that brought forward human advancement?
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Re:Ask HN: How is that humans advanced so much in the past 1... by inimino on Monday October 17, 2016 @04:02AM (#12723358)
The point is that literacy is not considered a luxury now, but has been in most of human history.
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