Taking the Long View
Kim Stanley Robinson, 2312: ”Alex often said that Chinese dominance is the default norm throughout history, except for the brief period of subjugation to Europe.”
The Atlantic, 2012: The Economic History of the Last 2,000 Years in 1 Little Graph. Via @mims.
[...] Remember that chart of the last 2000 years of GDP? Here’s what it looks like without a presentist bias that smushes the first thousand years into a single unit. [...]
Taking the Long View, Revised « Gerry Canavan
June 22, 2012 at 5:58 pm