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Re:Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest by JKCalhoun on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:24PM (#35534664)
Agriculture in general was Big Tech at the opening of the 20th Century.
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Re:Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest by nonethewiser on Tuesday April 11, 2023 @11:35PM (#35534727)
I think manufacturing is more similar to big tech (it WAS tech) in both type and impact.
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Re:Searching for the Spirit of the Midwest by jcoder on Wednesday April 12, 2023 @12:19AM (#35534966)
> it WAS tech

That’s a pretty small view of “tech”. Development of repeatable agricultural practices for predictable yield is absolutely a technological accomplishment (and not just because there were machines involved)

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