Recent trends in oil prices

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Memory sticks in the good old days

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A 5 megabyte IBM hard disk is loaded into an airplane, 1956

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Evolution of the Volkswagen Beetle, 1951-1990

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Moore’s law is still going

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Gary Becker: Fear, Technology, & Education

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Shooting the MGM logo, 1924.

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250MB Hard Drive, 1979

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On this day in 1948, the 1st polaroid camera was sold for $89.75

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The explosion in Apps revenue

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This is how babies used to fly on airplanes

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Technology IPOs

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KIDS REACT TO WALKMANS

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Famous black-and-white photos in colour – you be the judge!

22 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

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It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator

21 Nov 2014 Leave a comment

by Jim Rose in applied price theory, applied welfare economics, comparative institutional analysis, constitutional political economy, election campaigns, liberalism, macroeconomics, Marxist economics, political change, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand, politics - USA, public economics, technological progress Tags: , ,

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Politicians can’t be heroes any more. Instead, they have to operate within the tightly drawn tramlines of the global economy.

This is true for those on the left and the right, but the pressure that this places on countries to adopt a low-tax, light-regulation regime is something with which the right is far more comfortable.

via It’s not just Ed Miliband. Labour’s on the wrong side of history » The Spectator.

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