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Silk Road City Offers Lessons for Tech Innovation
Columnist Annalee Newitz explores the ancient Silk Road city to find lessons for modern tech innovation, emphasizing that people are more important than inventions in driving technological progress.
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New Scientist
On a trip along the Silk Road, columnist Annalee Newitz discovers that ancient technology can offer us a framework for our own advances. The most important drivers of technology aren’t inventions or devices, it turns out, but the people making them
2026-07-21 16:33 UTC