Sunday, January 18, 2026

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy, c. 2023.

Pathogenesis: A History of the World in Eight Plagues, Jonathan Kennedy, c. 2023. 

Chapter 7: Industrial Plagues

The first pages sound a lot like the AI revolution in the US starting around 2024. 

Nice recap of slavery, weaving, move to urban centers. The explosion -- population, industrializatio --  in the 19th century is amazing. 

With the pivot to urbanization without the sanitary conditions needed, we had tuberculosis and then cholera.

 

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