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On Tue, 06 Jun 2000, Chuck wrote:
>Robin Faichney wrote:
>
>> On Mon, 05 Jun 2000, Vincent Campbell wrote:
>> >I saw the programme.
>> >
>> >I was particularly interested in two things, first the comment about the
>> >British midlands being called the Black country, and rituals and dress sense
>> >becoming heavily imbued with black in the late 18th and 19th century,
>> >because of the dark satanic mills, and the mass use of coke.
>>
>> I found it particularly interesting that large scale iron founding took off
>> with the switch from coal to coke -- a move that could not possibly be put
>> down to resource depletion!
>
>Robin - I'm afraid you are again afflicted with willful tunnel vision. Like I
>said, you have to see how ALL the technology richochets. To begin to understand
>you should probably read the Connections book (I forget the author). I have never
>read it, but I understand that he has a good sense of how one invention ricochets
>into the entire web of technology.
Of course, to focus on one element in a net is a simplification, sometimes an
oversimplification. But don't you do the same by saying the industrial
revolution was due to natural resource depletion?
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