Concrete: A Seven-Thousand-Year History Benjamin Griffin unstoppable shift in human consciousness

unstoppable shift in human consciousness

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In a small cafe in a location so remote it stands in the middle of the middle of nowhere

But how can you facilitate someone else’s thinking when you don’t know what they already know

Concrete: A Seven-Thousand-Year History Benjamin Griffin unstoppable shift in human consciousnessA historical account of our most versatile building material, beginning in ancient Egypt and ending on the moon. For seven thousand years concrete has periodically shaped the path of human progress. Reese Palleys fascinating history of this ubiquitous and versatile material chronicles the repeated and often centuries long losses of the technology and its many reemergences and the cultural, scientific, and engineering accomplishments it has enabled.