The Industrial Revolution and The Video Revolution
Sir Richard Arkwright – note stockings… I am endlessly mesmerized by Britain. Here is a country that was, for most of its history, rather ordinary. Then, suddenly, in the middle of the 18th Century it undergoes a fantastic transformation....
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It was the Google of its day… Yesterday, the FT carried a very sobering article about the end of the Middle Class in America. It profiled several formerly Middle Class working families, all of whom are seeing both their...
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OK. You’ll be working right here for the next 40 years… Last week, on the heels of reading The Most Powerful Idea in the World by William Rosen, I paid a visit to Richard Arkwright’s first factory in Derbyshire,...
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All yours for only $39.95 About a million years ago, or so, I was a PhD candidate in Islamic History. I got out of that business because a) I have a hell of time learning Arabic, and b) with...
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