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NoMoreNicksLeft on April 14, 2015 | parent | context | favorite | on: Could we reboot a modern civilization without foss...

The late 19th century was already how many centuries into the industrial revolution?

If you're just going to pick irrelevant, arbitrary comparison points, why not claim that it's gotten better since 1982?

tripzilch on April 15, 2015 [–]

Slightly more than one century. Definitely not centurieS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Industrial_Revolution

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