What Bret Devereaux thinks about design

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Ancient and military historian specialising in the economy of the ancient Mediterranean, who writes the long-form blog A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry on pre-modern economies, logistics and warfare, and on what popular history, film and games get wrong about them.

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1. 26 Aug 2022

   Our readingAn invention only matters when the principle, a workable design and an economically viable use for it all arrive together; the idea on its own changes nothing.

   innovation

   Their wordsThe specificity matters here because each innovation in the chain required not merely the discovery of the principle, but also the design and an economically viable use-case to all line up in order to have impact.

   ↗Collections: Why No Roman Industrial Revolution?acoup.blog 2nd of 8 in this piece