April 27, 2023
Lighting history can remind us that a technology timeline reflects countless incremental steps as progress unfolds.
Lighting history can remind us that a technology timeline reflects countless incremental steps as progress unfolds.
Looking at William Nordhaus's study of lighting history, we can see how increasingly cheaper illumination boosted our living standards.
Our lighting history shows how artificial illumination used to be too costly to use and now is so cheap that we ignore it.