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I use the example of the wheelbarrow to talk about some general points about the history of technology, and the limits to our ability to reasonably make sweeping generalizations about individual technologies.
0:00 Some people overestimate how necessary wheelbarrows are
3:53 Technologies are only obvious in hindsight
7:23 It's really hard to trace the origins of a technology
11:44 Technologies have context
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La aldeanita del clavel rojo
Adolfo Guiard, 1903
Bilbao Fine Arts Museum
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