10,000 BC --- The wheel, first organized house-building and animal-taming.
9,000 BC --- Chinese Golden Age: immortality herb, war, writing, money, boats, beds, mandarinary corruption.
100 AD --- Ancient Rome: siege engines, public fountains, crude automata, heated baths.
1700 / 1800--- Britain --- Navy, Industrial Age, railroads, banking system, early consumer products.
2000 AD --- United States: computers, electronic web, gasoline cars, jet airplanes, electronic currency, checks and balances in government, self-modulating trade, guaranteed quality food products, extensive highways with speed limits, university system, research into perpetual motion and omniscience.
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Intention and Architecture, by Carolyn Fahey
6 years ago
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