The Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages | The Saylor Series | Episode 2 (WiM002)

Michael Saylor joins me to discuss anthropology, energy, and technology from first principles as we build the intellectual foundation necessary to truly grasp the historic significance of Bitcoin.
00:00:00 - Episode Trailer
00:01:09 - Robert's Intro
00:05:20 - Humanity’s missteps - 1000 years wasted
00:07:20 - Struggles inventing the Printing Press
00:08:36 - Trajan’s Column & forgetting that the world is round
00:11:04 - Native Americans & Failure to Grasp the Wheel
00:13:20 - Starting a Fire in Cyberspace with the Bitcoin Network
00:14:40 - Guns, Germs & Steel - Stressors makes us Harder & Stronger
00:16:20 - Formation of Great Cities at the Center of Empires
00:18:20 - The Logic of Empire - Economics, Customs, Taxation
00:20:04 - Carthago Delenda Est
00:20:51 - The Battle of Lepanto
00:21:37 - Venetian Catholics
00:22:41 - Channeling & capturing energy via Religion
00:23:41 - Manhattan - Nexus of the Bond Market
00:25:06 - Amsterdam - Nautical Distribution Center
00:25:49 - Martin Luther & the Economic Impetus for the Reformation
“It’s useful to have God on your side”
00:27:56 - Failed Cities are at the center of Failed Empires
00:28:11 - Paris & Cathedral of Notre Dame
Living Off the Vestiges of an Empire Long Passed
00:29:11 - The Steel Age. “Technology reshapes business, politics, life, & the human condition”
00:29:42 - Constructing an energy efficient shipping network
00:31:50 - Empires produce security Mongolian Security
00:33:06 - Bitcoin primary value proposition is security in the virtual domain
00:34:21 - Money is power, control of virtual money can provide physical security
00:34:31 - Plight of the German Jews in the 30s - Economic Refugees
00:36:31 - Rail Networks - Impact on Economics, Politics, & War
00:37:41 - The River War - Winston Churchill
00:39:41 - Railroads in the United States (Manifest Destiny)
Railroads are 1000x faster, stronger
00:40:38 - Standard Oil (Storing & Channeling Energy via Petroleum)
00:42:15 - Importance of creating scarcity in oil & standardizing components & quality
00:43:50 - 1000x more energy. “Some people can’t do a nickel worth of work”
00:45:23 - Food Energy Networks
00:45:54 - Stabilizing Food Energy at Room Temperature
00:46:46 - Origin of CPG Branding
00:47:18 - Marjorie Merriweather Post
00:48:21 - Challenges of moving energy thru time & space
00:49:11 - Manufacturing Food Products as a Store of Value
00:49:31 - Hershey PA Factory as Clean Room Facility
00:51:55 - Bitcoin as “The best branded asset in the history of the world”
00:52:13 - Great growth companies are powered by technology
00:54:01 - Non-technology strategies to grow a business
00:55:19 - John D. Rockefeller success
00:55:52 - Steel & Aluminum - Elemental Forces
00:56:21 - Steel - Elemental to all Civil Engineering & Modern Architecture
00:57:26 - Challenges of refining steel
00:58:34 - Challenges of explosives
00:59:11 - Attributes of Steel that make it ideal for Civil Engineering
01:00:07 - Aluminum - Elemental to the Aerospace Industry
01:02:21 - Energy Networks - Rail, Air, Food, Oil
01:03:09 - Impact of Technology on Life Expectancy (1900 to 1950)
01:04:14 - Antibiotics & Conquest of Infectious Disease
01:07:31 - Innovation thru trial and error
01:08:01 - “The future is already with us, it’s just not evenly distributed”
01:08:08 - Robert's Outro
01:43:41 - The End
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One problem: medieval Europeans never forgot that the Earth is spherical (just look at their paintings of Christ in glory, who holds a spherical world in his hand). Columbus had difficulty securing funding for his voyage not because investors thought he'd sail off the edge of a flat earth, but because they knew the circumference was too big for Columbus to make it all the way to India before running out of supplies. Lucky for Columbus that the Americas were 1/3 of the way there to save him from deprivation. This may seem like a minor point compared to the main arc, but it's enough to make me have to question many of Saylor's other vignettes that I'm less familiar with. He's obviously very successful and wise, and I think his main thrust is on point, but this unfortunate error of medieval flat-eartherism is going to require a lot of extra verification work.

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