Comments - The future of war is the future of society
noahpinion.blog · 414 words · saved by 1 readers
Military technology is changing rapidly, and we're going to have to change with it.
Gunpowder as a technology was brought with the Mongols to Europe. In addition, you should read a book by Tonio Andrade called "The Gunpowder Age" which goes into why the Europeans, despite getting gunpowder later, were able to build the best cannons and guns. His basic thesis is that Europe had terrible walls in comparison to China and this caused China to not develop the gun type weapons earlier. Chinese walls in the year 200 AD were, as a matter of course, 5 to 10 meters wide, of a similar height, with a trapezoidal cross section made by stacking pounded earth and then cladding the…
related reading
- The future of war is the future of societysubstack.com
- The Techno-Optimist Manifesto | Andreessen Horowitza16z.com
- My hopes for the futurecocohearts.substack.com
- All non-drone militaries are obsoletenoahpinion.blog
- Can We Survive Technology?sseh.uchicago.edu
- How to Stop Innovation From Breaking America - The Atlantictheatlantic.com
- How Late Zhou China Reverse-Engineered a Civilizationpalladiummag.com
- How The West Was Won | Slate Star Codexslatestarcodex.com
- Works in Progress Magazine - The entrepreneurial stateworksinprogress.co
- The Positive Balance of Technologykk.org
- Why China Can’t Innovatehbr.org
- No silver bullet - by Jason Crawfordnewsletter.rootsofprogress.org