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Re:Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf] by KineticLensman on Sunday April 20, 2025 @10:27AM (#43743988)
> In some sense, the printing press caused the 30-year war,

Well the 30-year war definitely showed technology-driven speed-up. Before the printing press we had wars that lasted for 100 years [0]

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hundred_Years%27_War

Re:Welcome to the Era of Experience [pdf] by codeflo on Tuesday April 22, 2025 @04:56AM (#43760236)
Just to be clear, that "speed-up" is not a good thing: Those 100 years were a lot less deadly in total. The World Wars were even shorter and much deadlier still. A possible next full-blown conflict between major powers will only last hours -- and end civilization.