Technology is the only meaningful way of increasing prosperity in the world and fixing its problems.

This Tuberculosis White Plague killed a billion people - more than any war! No other political event (World Wars) had a greater statistical mortality rate effect.

Through technology - the discovery of antibiotics and sterilization - we completely solved it.

The impact of technology completely dwarfs every political thing that took place during that time period.

All the activities/ideologies we fought over turned out to not be as relevant as defeating Tuberculosis!

But there’s asymmetry in the history books - for every 1 page about an important event like curing Tuberculosis, theres 100+ pages for the World Wars - despite them being insignificant in relation.

Politics are overrated; Technology is underrated;

Bitcoin is counter-intuitively both - it is a political revolution re-ignited and ultimately enabled through a technological breakthrough.

-- an excerpt from the Saylor Series Episode 2 - the Rise of Man through the Dark and Steel Ages, its 2-minute version can be found here https://www.2minutebitcoin.org/blog/saylor-series-episode-2-the-rise-of-man-through-the-dark-and-steel-ages-robert-breedlove