Is the Industrial Revolution a good precedent for explosive growth today?

Hacker News is discussing an analysis published on Sunday that questions whether the Industrial Revolution provides a useful parallel for understanding explosive growth in today's economy. The piece examines the scale and pace of change during the seventeen and eighteen hundreds to consider what it might reveal about how today's tech and business sectors develop.

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