We're roughly in 1885 Industrial Revolution England right now, where you have all, you know, these these frontier labs are like factories. The steam engine has been discovered. You can use steam to produce all kinds of new products, and many of them are running their own generators in their backyards at half capacity.And I'm going, "This makes no sense. Let's all pool our generators so that a shoe factory can spike up during the day, a steel factory can spike up during the night, and then you maximize utili ...

RT Nick Szabo (@NickSzabo4)@Cyber_Spock @VoxVirtutis Not so much. They knew how to make both pistons (in piston pumps) and boilers, yet they didn't invent the steam engine, which is basically a boiler hooked up to a reverse piston pump. ...