Re:Inventing the Future
by AstralStorm on Thursday October 12, 2017 @11:27AM
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These technologies do solve problems in a big way:
- printing press solved the problem of mass distribution of written knowledge and propaganda (By the way, invented by Chinese not Gutenberg but got lost in political turmoil), also paper money
- cars solved a problem of slow transport and having to care for fussy animals
- radio solved the problem of long range communication
- vaccines solved the problem of certain recurring plagues
- likewise sanitation
- running water solved a problem of having to walk long distances especially to irrigate crops (aqueducts, Babylonian invention)
- electricity solved a problem of cheap transport of energy (as opposed to coal for steam boilers)
Consumer focused logistics is much older than both Wal-Mart and Amazon. And does not really solve a problem in as much as is an optimization over older delivery methods.
- printing press solved the problem of mass distribution of written knowledge and propaganda (By the way, invented by Chinese not Gutenberg but got lost in political turmoil), also paper money
- cars solved a problem of slow transport and having to care for fussy animals
- radio solved the problem of long range communication
- vaccines solved the problem of certain recurring plagues
- likewise sanitation
- running water solved a problem of having to walk long distances especially to irrigate crops (aqueducts, Babylonian invention)
- electricity solved a problem of cheap transport of energy (as opposed to coal for steam boilers)
Consumer focused logistics is much older than both Wal-Mart and Amazon. And does not really solve a problem in as much as is an optimization over older delivery methods.