The Shock Of The Old: Technology and Global History since 1900

James Watt invented the steam engine but it was not until the advent of the railway and the steamboat that the old technologies (water and wind mills) started getting replaced.This phenomenon is often seen. New technologies rarely completely replaces the older ones (Just look at yourself in a full length mirror, you are dressed in both old and new technology.The typewriter was completely replaced but that was an exception to the rule.Technology writers love new stuff and regularly predict that it will take over the day after tomorrow, but it very rarely happens.

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