Are there more than 25 General purpose technologies? (x.com)

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I am reading The New Wave, the last book from Microsoft AI CEO Suleyman. He mentioned that a massive study pegged down the General Purpose Technologies to be only 24 in human history, but I can’t find the study. Does anybody know the study? This is the list btw:

Domestication of plants
Domestication of animals
Smelting of ore
Money
Wheel
Writing
Bronze
Iron
Water wheel
Three-masted sailing ship
Printing
Factory system
Steam Engine
Railways
Steamship
Internal combustion engine
Electricity
Automobile
Airplane
Mass production
Computer
Lean production
Internet
Biotechnology

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[-] [email protected] 9 points 8 months ago

Yeah, radio transmission being missing is wild. That's how Mussolini got famous to begin with, he was a radio guy. Let alone all the uses of various modern radio technologies.

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