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All Aboard The Technological Revolution

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the ding-ding-went-the-trolley dept.

fm6 writes "Our old friends at nytimes.com (click here to tell them how much traffic their silly registration system costs them) have a short but thought-provoking interview with economic historian John Gordon Steele. He compares the economic effect of the Internet to various other technological revolutions, especially the introduction of steam power in the early 19th century."

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  1. No-registration URL by ddstreet · · Score: 5, Informative
    You can view the story without registering here.

    Just change 'www.nytimes.com' to 'archive.nytimes.com' for any URL (I think).

    So here, it's
    http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26SVAL. html
    to
    http://archive.nytimes.com/2001/08/26/business/26S VAL.html